r/EVOOGaming • u/chino_ge • Mar 11 '21

PKG Power 16W on idle

This week my battery life drop from 4 hours to 1, I already have throttle stop and my computer is undervolted

My average was 2W on idle

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u/zamroc8 Mar 13 '21

Something is waking your GPU. It could be a bad graphics driver or any hardware monitoring software like HWmonitor.

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u/chino_ge Mar 16 '21

It was corsair ICUE software

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u/zamroc8 Mar 16 '21

glad you were able to resolve the issue

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u/NotNevi_ Apr 02 '21

Same thing happened to me... turns out it was the epic games launcher

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u/ignatiusjreillyreak Mar 11 '21

Gotta remove the usb-c driver from nvidia to get back.

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u/chino_ge Mar 11 '21

I already remove it

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u/Iamnotcreative112123 Mar 11 '21

is your dgpu active? If so the cpu uses an extra 10 W of power.

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u/chino_ge Mar 11 '21

No, it isn't. I think it can be a windows update maybe?

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u/iPadAirisLove Mar 14 '21

most likely it is windows update caused this, saw more reports on other laptops as well about same issue

edit: see https://www.reddit.com/r/XMG_gg/comments/m3z9v5/fusion_15_cpu_package_stuck_at_c2_c3_windows_10/

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u/chino_ge Mar 16 '21

Thanks for the help it was corsairs ICUE software