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Hey dudes,

I got a question i bought a Surfacebook Intel i7 with that "awsome" GTX965M and there is a big problem....... its mof*kn hot i mean like it burns my legs and now i heard that undervolting the CPU would be the best solution. My question now is .... does anyone have experience with undervolting the intel i7-6600U? and in addition does anyone know how i can activate the 965M?

 

I m sorry if my english isn't that good :) hope someone can still help me.

 

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English is fine.

Undervolting is probably impossible on such a customer locked and non OC suited platform since Microsoft doesn't want you to tinker with it. 

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What do you mean by activate? The GOU should be used automatically when a suitable 3D application is started up. 

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BIOS is pretty locked down iirc.

the GPU is active when it needs to (in games, for example). 

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Now i got it, the problem was that the nvdidia settings werent visible but now i got it, and i planned to undervolt the CPU with the Intel XTU

 

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Is that even possible? I mean undervoltinf shouldn't damage anything. Just make sure the profile is not applied at system start up or with XTU startup and turn down vcore a little if possible at all(I have been there, ... Bootloop after a 5GHz bench really makes your question your decision, was all fine though :P)

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2 hours ago, GER_T4IGA said:

Is that even possible? I mean undervoltinf shouldn't damage anything. Just make sure the profile is not applied at system start up or with XTU startup and turn down vcore a little if possible at all(I have been there, ... Bootloop after a 5GHz bench really makes your question your decision, was all fine though :P)

it doesn't damage anything by you play with system stability, which means potentially loss of someone work as the system freeze or BSOD while working on a project and hours of work can be loss, including file corruptipn.

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On 6/15/2017 at 6:27 AM, DerMacko said:

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Hi, you can essentially ignore everyone in the thread. While @GoodBytes posted a via option in Intel XTU, it's flaky boot consistently makes it subpar to the far better program Throttlestop. 

 

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