Toggle between power saving and performance?

goebs1986 · March 4, 2019

I built a PC with the initial intention of having it host my Plex server and a few other things non gaming related. However I got a Vega 56 for $250 so those plans have now changed.

The PC will be in the living room and I still plan to run my Plex and other programs, but I will also be gaming on this machine now. Is there a quick/easy way to switch between more of a quiet/power saving mode and then quickly switch to gaming mode?

This is my part list, https://pcpartpicker.com/user/goebs86/saved/#view=X93YTW

I have noticed if I keep my power options set to the Ryzen profile my CPU stays at max/boost clocks so I changed it to have the CPU only run at 50%. I am not sure how else to keep the CPU from constantly running at max speeds when it doesn't need to. I will also want the same thing on my GPU. I want them to run using very minimal resources probably 95% of the time (this is a 24/7 on machine), but easily go to normal/boost clocks for gaming. I thought was was going to be default behavior but for the CPU at least that doesn't seem to be the case. The only thing I changed in the bios was I set the ram to use XMP profile 2 so the ram is running at 2933mhz.

Thanks!

Turtle Rig · March 4, 2019

Just because it says performance mode doesn't mean your FPS will be higher. Just put it on power saver and just set for how long mon and pc stay on before they go to sleep.

Also there is no such thing has a hotkey to change between performance and power saver.

.Apex. · March 4, 2019

5 minutes ago, goebs1986 said:

I have noticed if I keep my power options set to the Ryzen profile my CPU stays at max/boost clocks

it's supposed to down clock itself at idle, there's something that got messed up in BIOS, try resetting the BIOS and try again using the balanced profile.