Battery saver without Cpu capping?

[Gall Cohen]

Hey guys!

I am trying to optimize my battery life and having a bit of a problem... about a year ago Linus did a video about laptop battery life and talked about how

Power saving is capping the cpu and battery saving disables background softwares notifications, but since then windows has changed with updates and I don't think they are separated anymore.

When I set my laptop to battery saver through the slider in the bottom of the screen or power consumption options it caps my cpu(although in the explanation Windows provides it says it will only disable background activity).

Is there a way to disable all the background software and notifications so they won't take battery but not cap the cpu?

Thanks! (btw, I checked the cpu using a benchmark, about 10-20% difference)

[Crunchy Dragon]

Undervolting your CPU would also work.

[Gall Cohen]

 

10 hours ago, OnyxArmos said:

I might be completely wrong here but I think Windows 10 has a "Gaming Mode" or something like that where you can tell it which background software you don't want it to use. You could also change what apps can run in the background all the time, that's how I have mine set.

 

 

The gaming mode sounded quite promising but from what I can tell it will only work when a game it played, it doesn't have an ordinary switch.

I'll check the background apps though, thanks!

10 hours ago, Crunchy Dragon said:

Undervolting your CPU would also work.

I did and it helped

 

[genexis_x]

10 hours ago, Gall Cohen said:

Is there a way to disable all the background software and notifications so they won't take battery but not cap the cpu?

I would just do a clean install