How to Increase your FPS - SOLVED - "Link State Power Management"

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https://www.reddit.com/r/witcher/comments/3at2st/pcie_power_management_can_throttle_your_gpu/
I am not sure if I saw this here, or in /r/pcmasterrace, but I wanted to make a post to (hopefully) make everyone aware that windows power settings can throttle your GPU based on the power management settings!
Go to your control panel, click on Hardware & Sound > Power settings (for category view) or Control Panel > Power options (for icon view) Select "CHange Plan Settings" next to whatever plan you have selected. Click on "Change Advanced Power Settings" Expand "PCI Express" > "Link State Power Management" and change that setting to "Off". Restart windows, and try re-running the game with your FPS utility of choice. While not all results will be the same, I saw a 10FPS increase from what I was getting previously (45~53FPS). It's a relatively easy tweak that wont break anything, requires little to no knowledge to perform, and may help get you a bump in FPS.
Enjoy!
Edit: Here is the post that inspired this PSA: http://www.reddit.com/r/pcmasterrace/comments/331lo9/was_wondering_why_my_r9_280_couldnt_get_30fps_on/

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Its worth mentioning you will get the same effect by just switching to the "High performance" plan in the power options.