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Hey all, so I watched a few videos on youtube about undervolting and how it can actually increase performance while decreasing heat and battery drain. Well I decided why not give it a go so using Intels XTU software I set to work undervolting my Maingear Element. specs are as follows: I7-9750H, 2070MaxQ, 32GB of 2666 memory, and a 1TB intel 660p NVME drive. I started my undervolting by running a 30 minute stress test in XTU to get my baseline temps and clock speeds. Then I let the laptop cool back down for about an hour so that it was back to completely idle. Leaving it in "Redline Gaming" power profile I fired up R20 and gave it a run I got a score of I believe it was like 2345 I then started my undervolting process dropping it -0.010mv everytime. Eventually I got to -0.200mv undervolt and the system was still rock solid stable. I fired up R20 again as with every other drop I would then run R20 to test system stability and temps.(being heatsoaked at that point im sure my temps where destined to be high) However I did manage to get a score of 2633 a 16% Improvement over the Stock performance. I then opened XTU for the final time and ran stress test for 3 hours to validate my undervolt. It passed and here we are. I am now daily driving a laptop with a -0.200mv undervolt applied to the cpu. However system power drain remains rather high for setting it in battery saver or balanced power profiles and when playing games I don't notice a significant drop in temps. However almost everyone on youtube that watched managed to drop their temps in game or in benchmark by 4-5 degrees!! with only -0.050 to -0.100mv undervolt. 

 

Did I do something wrong when applying my undervolt? Is there something else I need to do in conjunction with the cpu undervolt? like undervolting the GPU? Should I change out the thermal paste for a higher quality?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Just now, BlueScope819 said:

It seems like you did a great job with the undervolt, just make sure that it's applied properly by looking at CPU voltages. I would suggest changing out the thermal paste, just in general.

Yeah I was thinking about doing that anyway I mean I was thinking about pushing it further maybe towards -0.300mv undervolt because its been about a week now living with a -0.200mv undervolt and the system has been completely rock solid. I just thought I would see bigger gains (or rather reductions) in my thermals and in my battery life although both seem to have been relatively unaffected but I managed a 16% performance increase. 

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Undervolt only drops power if the CPU uses less power. On these 6 core (and more) parts' case they are originally power limited most of the time so that they just run faster but not draw less power.

 

In contrast other CPUs may hit their full clock speeds or near that in the first place, so they stop hitting the same level of power draw after the undervolt.

CPU: i7-2600K 4751MHz 1.44V (software) --> 1.47V at the back of the socket Motherboard: Asrock Z77 Extreme4 (BCLK: 103.3MHz) CPU Cooler: Noctua NH-D15 RAM: Adata XPG 2x8GB DDR3 (XMP: 2133MHz 10-11-11-30 CR2, custom: 2203MHz 10-11-10-26 CR1 tRFC:230 tREFI:14000) GPU: Asus GTX 1070 Dual (Super Jetstream vbios, +70(2025-2088MHz)/+400(8.8Gbps)) SSD: Samsung 840 Pro 256GB (main boot drive), Transcend SSD370 128GB PSU: Seasonic X-660 80+ Gold Case: Antec P110 Silent, 5 intakes 1 exhaust Monitor: AOC G2460PF 1080p 144Hz (150Hz max w/ DP, 121Hz max w/ HDMI) TN panel Keyboard: Logitech G610 Orion (Cherry MX Blue) with SteelSeries Apex M260 keycaps Mouse: BenQ Zowie FK1

 

Model: HP Omen 17 17-an110ca CPU: i7-8750H (0.125V core & cache, 50mV SA undervolt) GPU: GTX 1060 6GB Mobile (+80/+450, 1650MHz~1750MHz 0.78V~0.85V) RAM: 8+8GB DDR4-2400 18-17-17-39 2T Storage: HP EX920 1TB PCIe x4 M.2 SSD + Crucial MX500 1TB 2.5" SATA SSD, 128GB Toshiba PCIe x2 M.2 SSD (KBG30ZMV128G) gone cooking externally, 1TB Seagate 7200RPM 2.5" HDD (ST1000LM049-2GH172) left outside Monitor: 1080p 126Hz IPS G-sync

 

Desktop benching:

Cinebench R15 Single thread:168 Multi-thread: 833 

SuperPi (v1.5 from Techpowerup, PI value output) 16K: 0.100s 1M: 8.255s 32M: 7m 45.93s

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5 minutes ago, BlueScope819 said:

It seems like you did a great job with the undervolt, just make sure that it's applied properly by looking at CPU voltages. I would suggest changing out the thermal paste, just in general.

Also my voltages when watching them via hardware monitor while running R20 did reflect the undervolt well my base line i believe was around 1.380-1.425 now when running R20 or XTU's stress test my voltages hover around the 1.188-1.265 range so clearly my undervolt worked great I even manage to hold my boost clocks longer baseline saw my clocks dropping down to 3.5ghz while running XTU'S stress test, while running the same stress test now my clocks are closer to 3.72ghz sustained.

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2 minutes ago, Jurrunio said:

Undervolt only drops power if the CPU uses less power. On these 6 core (and more) parts' case they are originally power limited most of the time so that they just run faster but not draw less power.

 

In contrast other CPUs may hit their full clock speeds or near that in the first place, so they stop hitting the same level of power draw after the undervolt.

Ahhhh that makes sense.

 

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