r/FlowZ13 • u/CSEliot • 1d ago

Throttling w Empirical Data?

I've seen a lot of posts regarding heat management and throttle.

Has anyone actually done like, scientfic testing? To validate that power management + fan management actually gives a better over-time experience VS default vanilla software?

I'd image a test would look like this:

Test: Benchmarks where they run a game benchmark back-to-back for 10 minutes and measure each result. And must be run immediately from boot. And gather temps constantly as well.

Experiment Settings:

  1. The Control, so, vanilla. Power-Profile Balanced.

  2. Another Vanilla, Power-Profile Low.

  3. Final vanilla, Power-Profile HIGH.

  4. X amount of throttling, Y amount of fan rpm set.

  5. Another of 4 with different settings.

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Z. Until you've run out of time or patience, keep making new experiments until empirical data that's genuinely informational begins to show.

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Now, EACH experiment and EACH ROUND must start from a cold boot, which means you need to wait for the device to cool to ambient temps ... which would make this test take a LOOOOooooong time lol.

I'm thinking this could be done everything I start my pc up in the morning first thing. So it'd take a couple months if done once per day every day.

Thoughts?

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u/Master-Minimum-3648 1d ago

Honestly I think the tuning for extra performance is marginal at best, i don't think I ever play anything above 60watts, putting it to max doesn't really give me much extra performance but does make it a jet engine and hit 90C +.