Customised Shortcuts to Power Plans on your Desktop

[lorry]

First, thanks to @Fry178 for originally telling me about the possibility of this.


This will allow you to create individual power plan shortcuts onto your desktop, allowing you to switch between low power usage for everyday use and say gaming etc.
I now have three, the original 1usmus, a 1usmus reduced power plan and the Ryzen balanced power plan shortcuts on my desktop, allowing me to switch between them as wanted


Type cmd in search (run command prompt)

Type powercfg /list (this will list all of your power plans with identifying GUID)

Make a note of the '1usmus Ryzen Power Plan' or whichever plan you wish to duplicate and then amend
(mine is 82e2c877-7383-4d19-8b24-81625d64cff3 for example)


type powercfg /duplicatescheme GUID-ref (82e2c877-7383-4d19-8b24-81625d64cff3 is mine)
(this will create a duplicate) - make a note of the NEW GUID - mine becomes 039ad1df-2666-40f5-a282-ac186dbae8d9

type powercfg /changename NEW-GUID (mine is 039ad1df-2666-40f5-a282-ac186dbae8d9) "1usmus Reduced Power Plan" or whatever you wish to name it

then see https://www.groovypost.com/howto/create-power-plan-shortcut-windows/
to create shortcuts on your desktop to each powerplan as you wish to make
(do NOT forget to alter the appropriate power settings, Min & max or whatever, under advanced power settings once created).

You can then switch between the two plans with a double click on whichever powerplan as required.

You can also export and import power plans as well using the export and import commands of powercfg, which will allow you to make backups of your various power plans within Win 10 to say a USB or wherever.

Powercfg command-line options

You can use the powercfg.exe tool to control power schemes (also named power plans) to use the available sleep states, to control the power states of individual devices, and to analyze the system for common energy-efficiency and battery-life problems.

docs.microsoft.com

 

[Waldorf]

Your welcome.
No need to use the 1usmus as power saving plan.
Better to use the original windows one (cores will be less jumpy on clocks), and change min/max cpu perf to 0/50%, and turn off pcie power savings...

 

[lorry]

Your welcome.
No need to use the 1usmus as power saving plan.
Better to use the original windows one (cores will be less jumpy on clocks), and change min/max cpu perf to 0/50%, and turn off pcie power savings...

min/max Is altered to 0 - 50% but yes they are still 1usmus

 

[Waldorf]

Only use the 1usmus as balanced/perf profile.
It prevents the cores from going to sleep, hence higher power use

 

[lorry]

Only use the 1usmus as balanced/perf profile.
It prevents the cores from going to sleep, hence higher power use

yet the effective clock readings in HW show otherwise?
At the moment there are 10 out of the 24 threads all showing readings below 50MHz, which is when the cores go to sleep ?

 

[Waldorf]

Yes, but 1usmus gains from preventing deep sleep on cores probably ccx as well

 

[lorry]

Yes, but 1usmus gains from preventing deep sleep on cores probably ccx as well

I understand that, but how can It be preventing cores from sleeping when 10 of them are under 50MHz?
Some are reading as low as 0.5MHz.
Id say that's about as asleep as they could get?

 

[Waldorf]

because i can still see a difference in power it draws from the wall,
when using his/amd profile vs the power savings plan with same settings.

 

[lorry]

because i can still see a difference in power it draws from the wall,
when using his/amd profile vs the power savings plan with same settings.

I need a power draw that is specific to Just the PC and not my entire home to be able to do that.

 

[Waldorf]

im using the info from my UPS that the rig is running off, verified numbers with a wattmeter a while ago,
so sure, it wont match your hardware, but since i have only a 3600, impact on yours (on power savings) should have similar/better impact.

 

[lorry]

I'm using the info from my UPS that the rig is running off, verified numbers with a wattmeter a while ago,
so sure, it wont match your hardware, but since i have only a 3600, impact on yours (on power savings) should have similar/better impact.

ATM my entire home is using 300W and that is using one of the latest smart meter monitors that is Bluetoothed to both my gas and electricity meter

 

[Waldorf]

lol, that's just a little more than my pc room by itself