TechPowerUp Releases ThrottleStop 9.6—Take Control Over Your Processor's Power Management

[btarunr]

TechPowerUp today released the latest version of ThrottleStop by Kevin Glynn, a utility that gives you fine control over your processor's power-management, letting you squeeze the most performance out of it without having to overclock it. This utility is particularly useful to override processor power-management by OEMs in notebooks, although it's just as useful for desktops. Version 9.6 of ThrottleStop adds support for 13th Gen Core desktop and mobile "Raptor Lake" processors. A bug that caused stability issues with AVX512 has been fixed. The maximum possible IccMax values for 12th Gen and 13th Gen Core processors has been increased. FIVR-PL4 reporting has been fixed for some CPUs. There are several aesthetic updates to the user interface with this release.

DOWNLOAD: TechPowerUp ThrottleStop 9.6 by Kevin Glynn

• Added 13th Gen desktop and mobile Rocket Lake support including 13700HX.
• Restored proper scaling on high dpi 4K monitors.
• Increased maximum IccMax for 12th and 13th Gen processors.
• Added Undervolt Protection reporting to the FIVR window.
• Fixed FIVR - PL4 reporting for some CPUs.
• Dsabled the TS Bench - Random MHz feature when TPL - Speed Shift is not checked.
• Improved the Windows Defender Boost feature so it begins immediately when ThrottleStop starts.
• Added ExitTime=1 INI option to force ThrottleStop to exit 1 second after it starts.
• Disabled safe start feature when Stop Data is being used.
• Added an extra digit to the microcode version reporting.
• Fixed SLFM check box showing on screen when the CPU does not support SLFM.
• Fixed Limit Reasons reporting for Goldmont and Goldmont Plus processors.
• Fixed AVX512 bug.

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[Cheeseball]

Thank you @unclewebb!

 

[Marsil]

Anyone has before and after benchmarks?

 

[Denver]

* Your intel processor.

 

[Klemc]

Good for 7800x3d ?

 

[unclewebb]

Good for 7800x3d ?

ThrottleStop only supports Intel processors.

Anyone has before and after benchmarks?

Before and after what? ThrottleStop can improve performance if your computer has a throttling problem. It might also improve performance if you use it to increase the turbo power limits or if you use ThrottleStop to overclock an unlocked K or HX series processor. Any improvement depends on what you do with the program.

 

[iMisterJay]

Thank you so much!

Appreciate all the hard work gone in to this!

Will be a huge help with a lot of people!

 

[m6tzg6r]

Perfect, i recently got a laptop that when plugged in would clock too high and just created unnecessary heat, noise and power consumption.
Simply ticking the Disable Turbo option keeps CPU clocks down to on battery levels which is perfectly fine for my daily usage requirements.

One problem is i can't get it to load on Windows 11 startup, i put a shortcut to the program into the startup folder, it shows the program in the Task Manager startup tab, but it won't run til i manually launch it.

 

[unclewebb]

@m6tzg6r

ThrottleStop needs administrator privileges and needs to start after you log in. It is best to add it to the Windows startup sequence using the Task Scheduler.

Here is a guide that shows how to do that.

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Hi, I have a problem with my CPU (8700K), which is that my effective core clock speeds decrease after a while. I have an all core OC set to 4.7GHz and initially when starting the PC, the effective core clocks are 4.7GHz as well when CPU is under load. These are later (like 10 mins later after...

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[YIYI]

i9 13900HX using version 9.6 to adjust the CPU voltage does not take effect, I want to know if the next version can support it

 

[unclewebb]

i9 13900HX using version 9.6 to adjust the CPU voltage does not take effect

TS 9.6 is working for everyone else with a 13900HX. Post a screenshot of the FIVR window if you need help.

Make sure core isolation memory integrity is disabled and follow the link in my signature to disable VBS. If you need those features, you will not be able to use software to adjust the voltage.

Reboot and delete the ThrottleStop.INI configuration file. Adjust both the CPU core and the CPU P cache.

If the FIVR window shows Undervolt Protection, you will need to disable that in the BIOS if possible.

 

[YIYI]

Memory integrity and VBS are turned off. The TS 9.6 regulates the voltage to -172.9mv, and the FIVR interface offset shows the compensation voltage

 

[unclewebb]

Your BIOS has enabled Intel Undervolt Protection.
ThrottleStop cannot adjust the CPU voltage until Undervolt Protection is disabled in the BIOS before Windows starts.

What laptop model do you have? Many Lenovo laptops with the 13900HX processor work correctly by using ThrottleStop.

Try installing an older BIOS version. Maybe that will fix this problem for you.

 

[akraus1]

What are the C1... Undemotion checkboxes good for?
And what is the effect of Package C State locked?

I guess you are writing CPU MSRs at with a timer to override the settings defined by BIOS and OS. Is the OS not overwriting the settings also
again or how can you overwrite the settings?
In Windows 11 there are 75 Processor Power Management settings where a good fraction of them seems to be related to SpeedShift. I cannot
find anywhere documentation which setting belogs to what. Do you have some pointers?

 

[Prima.Vera]

I love this, but what I need is fan control. Especially for my laptop which can get very loud at times.

 

[BigDongle]

I love this, but what I need is fan control. Especially for my laptop which can get very loud at times.

There is an open sotce project on github called FanControl. Works wonderfully, been using for 2 yrs now.