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News Microsoft details Windows 10 Power Throttling savings

Discussion in 'Article Discussion' started by Gareth Halfacree, 19 Apr 2017.

  1. Gareth Halfacree

    Gareth Halfacree WIIGII! Lover of bit-tech Administrator Super Moderator Moderator

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  2. edzieba

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    Interesting, almost the exact opposite of the "speed then sleep" power saving technique that Intel have previously championed (running a task at max performance so it completes as fat as possible, then switching down to the lowest power state now that the core is idle).
     
  3. RedFlames

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    The most recent Insider builds can show whether a process is being 'Background Moderated' [being throttled] in task manager, however my CPU doesn't support the feature so it's just a long list of 'No'
     
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    Question for those in the Insider programme: can you decide which processes to throttle? Or is it all Windows' own doing?
     
  5. Gareth Halfacree

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    Ahem:
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  6. RedFlames

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    Basically 'what Gareth said', however the relevant settings only show if your PC has a battery connected so I can't sceenshot them [plus my CPU doesn't support the throttling function anyway].
     
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    Cheers. Having coffee before reading an article might be a good idea. ;)
     

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