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What does the Windows performance power slider actually do?

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[notenoughmonkeys]

This really works, I cranked up the settings and I get extra performance, and the best part is, because I'm running an extension cord from my neighbours house without them knowing, even the extra power usage is free. Thanks TechQuickie.

[hubertnnn]

Ah, yes, having two control panels with the exact same settings that do different things is not enough, you need a third one that does it third way and depends on the first two.

[bandito]

So old school power plan is a better way to get better performance than the new look power plan. Awesome.

[justo]

It's also dependant on whether you have the charger plugged in or not. So you have to set it twice, once with the charger plugged in, then unplug the charger and set it again for when on battery. It will remember each mode

[NeilD]

Balanced vs Best Performance also controls how the OS handles Performance and Efficiency Cores on Intel hybrid platforms with the thread director, a pretty huge contributing factor to performance which I don't think was mentioned for some reason. The Best Performance plan will prevent primary applications from being shifted to just the E cores when minimised or shifted to the background.

[El_Reddaio]

Hi team! some points you could have talked about:
1- Microsoft removed the slider in Win11 - now you have to dig in the settings panel if you want to switch
2 - setting the power slider to the max does indeed improve responsiveness, and in lenovo laptops turns on the fans to the max - however, it completely kills cpu power savings during idle time and your cpu will consume a lot of power even when idle. Not as much as when used 100% but close.
In laptops, this will kill your battery, but if plugged then it’s kind of ok because they don’t consume a lot.
However, on very powerful desktop systems, this could grow your electricity bill very fast.
Anyway, I’m looking for a way to have a similar slider in windows 11 because I need to boost my laptop from time to time at work! Has anyone found an alternative?

[elone]

Honestly, Windows 10 control panel can just get wrecked..I feel like I'm in a real life version of "Inception", forever stuck in a cascading loop of doom never to find the start or end of anything. When did it get so unusable? I built a few PC's back in the day but I rarely have to go digging for anything these days but I was shocked to see how broken it is now..

[one_step_sideways]

Manually tweaking the values in the Power Plan menu is the best way to increase the performance. If you use a Ryzen laptop (I have a Ryzen 7 6800H), you can increase the performance further (be it on battery power or while charging) by setting the Minimum Processor State to 100% to make it idle at the CPU's rated base clock speed, and thus even the smaller workloads will run at a considerably higher clock speed than usual, and due to the way CPUs scale their performance, this will give you extra performance in a web browser or your operating system in general and make it snappier.

Conversely, to get better battery life, you can unlock the hidden option of "Maximum Processor Frequency" (or whatever it's called) through the Registry Editor. This will not only let you save your battery on battery power or inversely make the system faster on battery power by forcing the Minimum Processor State to 80-100%, but also make the CPU run much cooler when on the charger. Because, for many users, Ryzen 7 6800H laptops are running too hot on the charger and always have the fan spinning audibly, so what you can do is decrease the maximum processor frequency from 4.75GHz (Ryzen 7 6800H's max boost clock) to 4.2GHz, which will cause it to run a little slower, but will drastically reduce power draw. Reducing the clock speed further to 3.6GHz will make it way more power efficient due to the smal voltage that will be used, and thus this is a valid way to effectively undervolt your laptop, even if it does not support actual undervolting.

[Wozza]

For modern laptops, if you're not gaming or doing anything intensive, i recommend keeping battery saver on all the time. I hardly notice difference while browsing or doing anything light, but it keeps the clocks down much lower and gives me like an extra hour at least on my surface go laptop

[DeafGamerLife]

I already speed up very fast and boost it. On old laptop hardware that run 12 years old current on windows 10 this is incredibly! It’s instantly fast. Thank!

[dsaints]

One thing that windows could have is a way pausing any process which is mostly used on "best-performance" mode when plugged to external power, and prompt the user continue with said process with battery only, or close said process or even even just put to sleep, so the user can access the program again, when having external power again, without losing any volatile data in it

[kemalardaayar]

Yeah that's a very useful tool. I thought most people knew that. I use power saver mode most of the times to keep the cpu cool. If i'm not using any design/production programs or gaming, power saver is more than enough.

[starkiller]

I usually leave it on better performance when I'm doing normal tasks, only when I play games I change it to best performance.

[BLVCKSCORP]

I spent over a week trying to understand why my windows lagged so much when I knew that my brand new (also first ever) pc is a powered monster and nothing seemed to work (read ALOT of different solutions online) and then finally found the power saving setup on my own and put it to full performance and it worked, now I have the pc of which I paid alot of money for and right after figuring it out I went online to search this and every post said it is a myth that power saving setup has ANY effect on a pc and I was just so awed by this...and 48h later I find your video, irony.

[paulopires]

The problem with having it in performance mode is that the processor speed (MHz) is always maxed out compared with balanced where the CPU speed goes to minimum when the CPU is not needed with more intensity and because of that Performance mode is always using more energy.

[Superdazzu]

windows is so redundant at this point that there could be a slider, an exe, a start shortcut and a key combination to enable the ultra super best performance enhancer setting

[sir.fender]

I use a laptop with a Ryzen 5 5500U which is nothing to scoff at. The CPU/ APU packs a serious punch for 25 watts with dual channel memory enabled. I have learned on my specific device that Performance mode hardly changes anything from Balanced mode. I keep it on balanced mode and it gets everything done quickly with great battery life.

[ravencorvus]

Don't touch the power plans. They don't do what they say they do. They can prevent downclocking etc. It's usually just fine on balanced it will scale for what it needs.

I won't comment on the slider, I haven't tried it, seems specific per laptop.

[ripcityraider]

tHESE ARE THE KINDS OF VIDEOS i WOULD LIKE MORE OF

[cyn]

hey, so honestly this would be a great video for the main LTT channel. I myself, a proud laptop user, am a bit confused on whether I should use max power on the older settings sheet or just crank the slider to the despicably vague 'better performance'. test results would help to decide and I always love to see the lab in action heheh