Ionico Update
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Macco26
Expert
Which laptop do you have? 2021 generation: Elimina Pro and Ionico MIGHT have the MUX (for some BIOS, others are flawled, waiting a new BIOS hopefully).
For the models above you install the new Control Center 3.x and check the options in the quick switch section. Or yeah, digging into the BIOS for how many setings you have in the Switchable Graphics of said BIOS.
For the models above you install the new Control Center 3.x and check the options in the quick switch section. Or yeah, digging into the BIOS for how many setings you have in the Switchable Graphics of said BIOS.
RobertoDub
Active member
What is the battery life when browsing the web or watching youtube videos, in the Ionico with the new bios, please?
Macco26
Expert
I told mid video in my latest video about undervolting, etc.
I didn't just watched youtube, I smartworked with Office Suite, Citrix Receiver, some Chrome and Chromium. Just some YT here and there.
And it lasted 6+ hrs with 55 minutes remaining.
It was with the old BIOS. I then had to reconnect to flash the newer BIOS, infact.. ^^
So 7 hr mark (20-25% brighness). Nvidia Optimus of course. Some aggressive undervolting, of course.
Expect the same for new BIOS I guess under same scenarios.
I didn't just watched youtube, I smartworked with Office Suite, Citrix Receiver, some Chrome and Chromium. Just some YT here and there.
And it lasted 6+ hrs with 55 minutes remaining.
It was with the old BIOS. I then had to reconnect to flash the newer BIOS, infact.. ^^
So 7 hr mark (20-25% brighness). Nvidia Optimus of course. Some aggressive undervolting, of course.
Expect the same for new BIOS I guess under same scenarios.
Also very important when you are on battery you want to check if "gcuservice.exe" is running on the nvidia GPU (you can display an icon in the task bar via the nvidia control panel), if it does: kill it!
HWMonitor.exe and GPU-Z (the both 64bits version) wake gcuservice.exe and run it on the dGPU, the service then never stop and reduce battery life by a good amount. The 32 bits version of both HWMonitor and GPU-Z does run fine and don't run gcuservice.exe on the dGPU and work fine.
I decompiled the eluktronics control center and the pcs control center and they are the same. In fact the eluktronics control center is a more recent version: 3.23.6 vs 3.1.6. Inside the decompiled package you can find the exact same things from translation strings to shared dll and gcuservice.exe and gcubridge.exe and GamingCenter.exe, the same json files, same folder with different images for differents brands etc etc.
So we have to ask for driver and control center and bios..... and the control center is an old version (I use the eluktronics one thanks to PCS not shipping the last version that contain bugfixes). Still waiting for the BIOS after having to request my drivers.
HWMonitor.exe and GPU-Z (the both 64bits version) wake gcuservice.exe and run it on the dGPU, the service then never stop and reduce battery life by a good amount. The 32 bits version of both HWMonitor and GPU-Z does run fine and don't run gcuservice.exe on the dGPU and work fine.
I decompiled the eluktronics control center and the pcs control center and they are the same. In fact the eluktronics control center is a more recent version: 3.23.6 vs 3.1.6. Inside the decompiled package you can find the exact same things from translation strings to shared dll and gcuservice.exe and gcubridge.exe and GamingCenter.exe, the same json files, same folder with different images for differents brands etc etc.
So we have to ask for driver and control center and bios..... and the control center is an old version (I use the eluktronics one thanks to PCS not shipping the last version that contain bugfixes). Still waiting for the BIOS after having to request my drivers.
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Me too.
standard build, 26 working days