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I don't know if I've opened this topic in the right place, but I'm moving on to the question I was going to ask. If I undervolt my processor to -80 in the bios, how important will this be to battery life?
 

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I would think that you would probably not realize a whole lot of difference to your battery life by undervolting. The amount that you could undervolt and still have a viable and stable processor would be almost negligible compared to the other things in your laptop that consume power, like your screen.

You would have more power savings if you just dim your screen a little, rather than depending on your CPU voltages.
 

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I would think that you would probably not realize a whole lot of difference to your battery life by undervolting. The amount that you could undervolt and still have a viable and stable processor would be almost negligible compared to the other things in your laptop that consume power, like your screen.

You would have more power savings if you just dim your screen a little, rather than depending on your CPU voltages.
I have already implemented ways to extend battery life that most standard users know and do. This includes the screen brightness warning you mentioned. I was just trying to learn more. Who would say no to extra battery time?



By the way -80 (maximum) already works fine. I have not yet seen whether it has a positive contribution to the battery.
 

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Wel logic says then when things uses less power, it draws less power from the battery.
I would say, just go messure it. Fill up battery 100%, do a full power load of normal settings, check how long it takes before battery is empty. Write down time of how long battery lasted.
Then recharge battery, lower voltage, do again a full power load until battery is empty. Write down time again, and compare it..

use a tool like cpu benchmarking to get it to full load.
 

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Wel logic says then when things uses less power, it draws less power from the battery.
I would say, just go messure it. Fill up battery 100%, do a full power load of normal settings, check how long it takes before battery is empty. Write down time of how long battery lasted.
Then recharge battery, lower voltage, do again a full power load until battery is empty. Write down time again, and compare it..

use a tool like cpu benchmarking to get it to full load.
This will take me about 16 hours :(


oh okay. You say do it at full load. I understand
 

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I don't know if I've opened this topic in the right place, but I'm moving on to the question I was going to ask. If I undervolt my processor to -80 in the bios, how important will this be to battery life?
Unless you maxed/fixed the CPU Frequency - your CPU won't run at same voltage at all time. It can while running heavy applications - but that's just it, your power profile (if at least - Balanced) - will constantly mess with the voltage (and frequencies) - mostly lowering them, but also increasing them - depending on what you do on your system. Your particular CPU is caped at 1.4V - which triggers at (close) to max frequencies. But something tells me - it rarely does - cause of thermal throttling (lowering voltage/frequencies - while reaching a high enough temp). Thus, -80 out of -700 & up-to 1.3 V is what? 8%? A 8% bonus on battery life - sounds nice, right? Wrong. Since your CPU has TDP of 55 W - which it will rarely reach (again, cause of thermal throttling) - while your GPU (you didn't mention which - yet this is the most power hungry component in your laptop) - might be able to go as high as 80W (if a RTX 3060). The display (again, depends - which type - what refresh rate is running at - or the brightness setting) - could also use around 10 W (on average), while between 2 - 10 is needed for the SSD. That being said, don't think you'll notice much of a difrence - in terms of battery life - but it can help lowering temps a bit.
 

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Unless you maxed/fixed the CPU Frequency - your CPU won't run at same voltage at all time. It can while running heavy applications - but that's just it, your power profile (if at least - Balanced) - will constantly mess with the voltage (and frequencies) - mostly lowering them, but also increasing them - depending on what you do on your system. Your particular CPU is caped at 1.4V - which triggers at (close) to max frequencies. But something tells me - it rarely does - cause of thermal throttling (lowering voltage/frequencies - while reaching a high enough temp). Thus, -80 out of -700 & up-to 1.3 V is what? 8%? A 8% bonus on battery life - sounds nice, right? Wrong. Since your CPU has TDP of 55 W - which it will rarely reach (again, cause of thermal throttling) - while your GPU (you didn't mention which - yet this is the most power hungry component in your laptop) - might be able to go as high as 80W (if a RTX 3060). The display (again, depends - which type - what refresh rate is running at - or the brightness setting) - could also use around 10 W (on average), while between 2 - 10 is needed for the SSD. That being said, don't think you'll notice much of a difrence - in terms of battery life - but it can help lowering temps a bit.
You gave a great answer. thank you, I understand better now
 

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