Hello everyone,
I have an IONICO 15 II laptop that I bought recently, it has an I7 11800H, 32GB of RAM and an RTX 3070. I noticed that when I run games or render videos and the laptop is in gaming mode the battery starts draining. At first I was suspecting that the laptop charger (230 watt) couldn't provide enough juice. I tried to play with Control Center's performance settings but it just cripples the performance, the default config is:
LP1: 45 watt
LP2: 45 watt
LP4: 110 watt
GPU: 125 watt + 15 for turbo boost, I didn't have the option to change that but after digging inside the Windows registry editor I found the key to enable it, but even then it game only the option between 125 and 126 watt.
and because I needed a second charger anyway I order another one also 230 watt, and it gave the same issue. Then I order a small device from amazon to measure how much power the laptop is drawing and it gave this:
In office mode, running a game will peak at around 100 watt
In Game mode it peaks at around 180.
when I set LP1/LP2/LP4 to 45 watt in gaming mode the peak was around 150/160.
So there is still room for the charger to give more power.
Then I started searching on the Internet and found similar issues reported on laptops from big brands, they do it because there laptop chargers can't provide enough power so they came up with a technology called Hybrid Power to use energy from both the battery and the charger at the same time. my question is how to disable this on PCS laptops because I see that it shouldn't be needed with a 230 charger? or is that intentional to make batteries die quickly so that they can sell you new ones?
I have an IONICO 15 II laptop that I bought recently, it has an I7 11800H, 32GB of RAM and an RTX 3070. I noticed that when I run games or render videos and the laptop is in gaming mode the battery starts draining. At first I was suspecting that the laptop charger (230 watt) couldn't provide enough juice. I tried to play with Control Center's performance settings but it just cripples the performance, the default config is:
LP1: 45 watt
LP2: 45 watt
LP4: 110 watt
GPU: 125 watt + 15 for turbo boost, I didn't have the option to change that but after digging inside the Windows registry editor I found the key to enable it, but even then it game only the option between 125 and 126 watt.
and because I needed a second charger anyway I order another one also 230 watt, and it gave the same issue. Then I order a small device from amazon to measure how much power the laptop is drawing and it gave this:
In office mode, running a game will peak at around 100 watt
In Game mode it peaks at around 180.
when I set LP1/LP2/LP4 to 45 watt in gaming mode the peak was around 150/160.
So there is still room for the charger to give more power.
Then I started searching on the Internet and found similar issues reported on laptops from big brands, they do it because there laptop chargers can't provide enough power so they came up with a technology called Hybrid Power to use energy from both the battery and the charger at the same time. my question is how to disable this on PCS laptops because I see that it shouldn't be needed with a 230 charger? or is that intentional to make batteries die quickly so that they can sell you new ones?
