Does it matter about the powerplan?

Zeebedy · 30 Nov 2018 at 14:54

Hey guys,

my power-plan is on "balanced" atm, should it be on max performance? or is it ok as is??

MartinPrince · 30 Nov 2018 at 20:58

Are you using a desktop or a laptop?

Zeebedy · 30 Nov 2018 at 22:15

desktop mate.

TheVoice · 30 Nov 2018 at 23:52

Balanced is fine. Max Performance tends to prevent the CPU from reducing clock speed etc when it's idle, which just means more heat and power wasted. If you're overclocking however, that can be preferable as some overclocks are unstable when the energy saving features kick in.

jpaul · 1 Dec 2018 at 07:45

Specifically check pci active power state management off, and setting min&max processor state to 100%,
I set both of these when investiagting sound/video glitches

andshrew · 2 Dec 2018 at 22:32

jpaul said:
Specifically check pci active power state management off, and setting min&max processor state to 100%,
I set both of these when investiagting sound/video glitches

You arguably don't want to set your minimum processor speed to 100% because you lose the benefit of the system clocking down to a less power intensive state during normal every day use. If you're actually getting issues as a result of the speed change you probably have other underlying issues you'd be better off resolving rather than just forcing it to not do it.

jpaul · 3 Dec 2018 at 08:19

andshrew said:
You arguably don't want to set your minimum processor speed to 100%

yes - I most use an older sandy bridge 4c architecture, maybe they are less capable of spooling up in response to load, I don't game,
just using a pciX->pcmca->sound-card flow where setting min=100% seemed to eleviate glitches.

But I should put a power monitor plug inline to see if the effect of changing min from 5->100% has an effect on electricity used.