Lafite II powersave with no fan noise

[rossbeazley]

Just thought I would post this, but most of the time i run at 60% max pstate to avoid fan noise.

I only occasionally crank up when doing some big compilation or using an android emulator and suffer the fan noise.

as root

echo 60 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/intel_pstate/max_perf_pct

 

[pantar85]

thank you ross, this comment pushes me to buy a Lafite II.

i was worried about fan noise and it breaking down / gathering dust over time, but if you can set it so as it enver even needs to turn on at a small performance cost, im totally sold.

 

[maxjstone]

Just thought I would post this, but most of the time i run at 60% max pstate to avoid fan noise.

I only occasionally crank up when doing some big compilation or using an android emulator and suffer the fan noise.

as root

echo 60 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/intel_pstate/max_perf_pct

Hi Ross. Would you be willing to give a more detailed description of how to do that for less techy members such as myself? Cheers.

 

[rossbeazley]

Sorry for the late reply, the rough way of doing it is...

Open a terminal

Type (all on one line)

sudo echo 60 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/intel_pstate/max_perf_pct

To go back to full power you can replace 60 with 100 in the above command