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Thank you soo much for these, as a new owner of a 5950x the balanced power profile was driving me mental. Idling at 50+ degrees, spikes to nearly 60 degrees just using the desktop.

The sz Ryzen balanced v4 I used on my 3900xt got me idling down to 37~39 degrees, but it's not actively developed now and AMD did say to use Windows balanced.

But seeing as you have a 5950x I feel more confident using these plans. The default Windows are terrible, so who knows why AMD abandoned their own profiles. Unless MS have done something recently to make an absolute mess of Windows 10 power profiles???

Even your ultimate performance doesn't spike temps as mental as the Windows Balanced power profile does.
 
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The default Windows are terrible, so who knows why AMD abandoned their own profiles. Unless MS have done something recently to make an absolute mess of Windows 10 power profiles???
AMD decided to drop them cause they think the 5000 doesn't need any special power plan...
MS ones are generic and not really tailored for high core counts.
There's a general mess from both AMD and MS so with a bit of customization it's possible to achieve a much better thermal/performance ratio.
 
AMD decided to drop them cause they think the 5000 doesn't need any special power plan...
MS ones are generic and not really tailored for high core counts.
There's a general mess from both AMD and MS so with a bit of customization it's possible to achieve a much better thermal/performance ratio.
Thought as much, but was wondering if it was even worse lately due to the mess MS seems to be making of Windows 10. All sorts of bugs/issues cropping up lately from audio to performance. And they're just about to drop Windows 11 :eek:

Is Balanced snappy a WIP to replace Balanced LowPower or are you going to maintain 3 power profiles? I'm sticking on Ultimate just now anyway :cool:
 
Thought I'd give Windows 11 a spin just to see what the WIP is like, it seems all power profiles have been removed and all you can change is the screen/sleep timeout now. Unless I'm missing something. Just a heads up to anyone enjoying using custom power profiles and considering jumping on the Windows 11 testing train.

edit - Just as I post this I find you CAN still access them lol. Have to go through the control panel rather than the new settings window.
 
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Thought I'd give Windows 11 a spin just to see what the WIP is like, it seems all power profiles have been removed and all you can change is the screen/sleep timeout now. Unless I'm missing something. Just a heads up to anyone enjoying using custom power profiles and considering jumping on the Windows 11 testing train.

edit - Just as I post this I find you CAN still access them lol. Have to go through the control panel rather than the new settings window.
Yeah, was going to tell you :p
You can also use QuickCPU, works fine with Windows 11.
 
Good morning Sir, I was browsing random threads around here for fun and jiggles when I stumbled upon your one.
I installed the Ultimate Performance power plan and I got a 100 points higher CB20 score, lower cpu temperatures, and all my usual benchmarks are now higher.
Is this what they call "magic" ? How do I learn this power ?
 
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Good morning Sir, I was browsing random threads around here for fun and jiggles when I stumbled upon your one.
I installed the Ultimate Performance power plan and I got a 100 points higher CB20 score, lower cpu temperatures, and all my usual benchmarks are now higher.
Awesome Sir!

Is this what they call "magic" ? How do I learn this power ?
If you want to learn and experiment with this "magic" you can download QuickCPU and compare my custom plan with the default Ultimate Performance:


It's a very handy tool and free!
 
Does your Ultimate overwrite my current customized Ultimate plan or will it just add another option?
 
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Does your Ultimate overwrite my current customized Ultimate plan or will it just add another option?
It does have a different Guid so it shouldn't overwrite it.
But just in case install QuickCPU and save it or use powercfg from command prompt.
 
I'm not really understanding what the difference is with Ultimate and High Performance from looking at the app. All the stats seem to be the same for me under Windows 11?

Curiously my best cores are 2 & 3 yet the graph shows cores 1 and 6 are used by 66% ! I guess there's the evidence that Windows 11 doesn't care about AMD core management correctly yet.
 
Discussion starter · #152 ·
Any updates for Windows 11?
Did a quick run a while ago and they were working fine on Win 11 as well.
Hope to make a more comprehensive testing in the next weeks.
 
As a note, the changes I observed taking place in my power plan following the latest chipset update were:
• short running threads prefer performant processors
• minimum processor state was changed to 100%
 
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I uninstalled the latest chipset drivers provided by MSI as the L3 cache was significantly worse than without them.
 
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I uninstalled the latest chipset drivers provided by MSI as the L3 cache was significantly worse than without them.
@mongoled

I'm gonna revert the power plan changes and see what that does... Just set back to "Automatic" and "0"
 
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Hi Power Plan has interesting modifications, one im curious on is turn off display 2700 why not 0 (never turn off)
Cause I'm an Eco Warrior :D

No seriously, there's no need to waste power to keep it on unless needed.
Everyone has its own preference and needs on this so better have it in as default than off; 99% of people it's the first thing they'll change.
 
Is this power plan still applicable to 5900x, and Win11? i see that the cores/threads being boosted are different with this powerplan VS stock ultimate performance.

@Yviena

Yes, it's still applicable and there are differences between it and the Ultimate plan regularly found within the Windows 10/11 OS
 
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