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Found a solution! In the case that someone has the same issue just perform a clean boot since some services use the nvidia GPU and this kills battery life Here is a how-to: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/929135/how-to-perform-a-clean-boot-in-windows I belive it's the MSI background services but i am not 100% sure.

it came without an OS so I did a fresh install, and if it had bloatware I have most probably removed it since I removed all that came standard with windows (candy crush, skype etc...)

Hi! bought and MSI GE66 (base model) to take to school and play some games, the problem with it is its battery life. After infinite tweaks I achieve 2 hours of battery life with simple chrome tasks. After investigating I realised that its the RTX card's fault since although its "deactivated" it is still on use. MSI laptop's have a power button which turns amber with the dGPU and white with iGPU. Half an hour ago it turned white and the battery life (or what windows told me) was nearly 10 hours. I restarted the laptop for other reasons, power button turned orange and now it tells me that I have less than 2 hours of battery life with an 80% charge. I selected the iGPU in the nvidia control pannel, activated optimus in dragon center and deactivated the 2070 in device manager and STILL the dGPU is being used somehow... Here are the specs i7-10750H (limited to 2.6GHz) RTX 2070 (120W variant I think, its not the max-q) 32gb 2933 RAM 1TB NVMe SSD basically everything that has an option to save battery is on the maximum battery option. Thanks.

I want the computer to be silent whilst studying and with this the fans ramp up when a minute or so goes by edit: temps go up to 80 degrees until i set the fans to spin up

I've been an AMD guy forever and having the 5700XT feels good and drivers are alright (at least for the games I have), so I would go team red

Hi! Bought recently a MSI Ge66 laptop with an i7 10750H, when it comes to gaming its great but for studying its horrible. I want the laptop to have its fans at 0 rpms (have done it in the past with other MSI laptops with worse cooling than this one), there is a HUGE issue, MSI lets you opt between low performance and medium performance. Low makes the CPU run at 0,5 GHz making the pc incredibly slow, medium makes it run at 4,4 GHz just by opening a blank chrome tab. I just want the cpu to idle at 1,5-3 GHz so that the fans don't ramp up. Tried XTU but voltage control (for undervolting) is greyed out and disabling turbo boost is also greyed out. Thanks beforehand!