I recently acquired a laptop with an i7-8565U with an OEM set TDP of 15w. Wanting to get some more performance out of it, I downloaded and installed Throttlestop. Before I began undervolting and increasing the power limit, I ran a few stability tests and I *think* I successfully ran a couple of 16 thread/1024M tests.
I then began tinkering with various settings and finally achieved a stable undervolt of around -80mv. I then boosted the power limit to 25w to try and take full advantage of the CPU. Things seemed very stable until I came back to TSBench and tried to run another 16 thread test. It promptly crashed TSBench and Throttlestop itself. Even renaming the Throttlestop directory and .ini file, then shutting down did not resolve the crash.
Have I fried my laptop? Nothing else has crashed - so far.
Specs: i7-8565U (4c/8t), 16GB DDR4-2400 RAM, Nvidia MX150 2GB, Toshiba NVMe 512GB SSD
I then began tinkering with various settings and finally achieved a stable undervolt of around -80mv. I then boosted the power limit to 25w to try and take full advantage of the CPU. Things seemed very stable until I came back to TSBench and tried to run another 16 thread test. It promptly crashed TSBench and Throttlestop itself. Even renaming the Throttlestop directory and .ini file, then shutting down did not resolve the crash.
Have I fried my laptop? Nothing else has crashed - so far.
Specs: i7-8565U (4c/8t), 16GB DDR4-2400 RAM, Nvidia MX150 2GB, Toshiba NVMe 512GB SSD