Universal Blue•4mo ago

(RESOLVED) Turbo boost and Undervolt

Hey mates !! I switched to BoS yesterday, on a Laptop Legion Y540, with an i5 9300f and an RTX 2060. It's absolutely awesome 😃 , and for once, goodbye Win11 and AtlasOS. But I have a problem. On Win11, I used Throttlestop, it allowed me to deactivate the CPU turbo mode, and to apply an undervolt of -100 to have good temperatures and almost not hear the PC fans. On BoS, I managed to install "intel-undervolt" (https://packages.fedoraproject.org/pkgs/intel-undervolt/intel-undervolt/), but not sure that it works correctly, and I still have turbo mode active. I can't find anything on the internet, or the tutorials don't work. Could anyone help me? Thank you in advance for your help, keep it up, I love this distro! (Yes, I'm a big gamer :steam: ).

11 Replies

HikariKnight•4mo ago

you should be able to turn of turbo, let me grab my laptop i believe i have a script for it i call at login

#!/bin/bash
NOTURBO="/sys/devices/system/cpu/intel_pstate/no_turbo"
if [ -z $1 ]; then
  echo 1 | sudo tee "$NOTURBO"
else
  echo $1 | sudo tee "$NOTURBO"
fi

#!/bin/bash
NOTURBO="/sys/devices/system/cpu/intel_pstate/no_turbo"
if [ -z $1 ]; then
  echo 1 | sudo tee "$NOTURBO"
else
  echo $1 | sudo tee "$NOTURBO"
fi

Thogrinn•4mo ago

Amazin' 😃 ! And...Sorry but i'm a complete noob about this, can you explain the procedure ? (And how can i create this script 🤓 ) 🧐

HikariKnight•4mo ago

make an empty file named noturbo and put it in ~/.local/bin, put that text in it, then chmod +x the file in terminal then just sudo noturbo to turn off turbo and sudo noturbo 0 to turn turbo on again you will have to do this each boot though

Thogrinn•4mo ago

Haha, it's nice, i'll test this, thx aagain bro 🙂 !

HikariKnight•4mo ago

you can go as far as making a systemd service to automatically turn off turbo at boot. im just lazy 😛 but you have the means to at least turn it on and off through the terminal now

Thogrinn•4mo ago

No problem, i can launch it manually 🙂 Is it correct ?

Thogrinn•4mo ago

Doesn't work 🙃

Thogrinn•4mo ago

Ok, i found a tip about scripts (in my memory 🤦 ) ; If i add ".sh" ext, double clic noturbo.sh, the system ask for password, does it work ? How can i check if turbo is on or off ?

Zeglius•4mo ago

you might want to try this. Is what i use to set a temp cap on my cpu https://github.com/georgewhewell/undervolt/

GitHub

GitHub - georgewhewell/undervolt: Undervolt Intel CPUs under Linux

Undervolt Intel CPUs under Linux. Contribute to georgewhewell/undervolt development by creating an account on GitHub.

Zeglius•4mo ago

needless to say with being careful with this kind of stuff, might damage your hardware

Thogrinn•4mo ago

Cool ! 🙂 And i foud this to check T_boost : "cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/intel_pstate/no_turbo" Thx again mates, it's a great help !!!! Problem solved !! 🤓 ✅

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(RESOLVED) Turbo boost and Undervolt