Should I use High perfmance or balanced windows power settings,?

[󠁳⁧⁧ ᲼᲼᲼᲼᲼᲼᲼]

Idk guys, balanced seem more reasonable and i have a denece t system

[Lambros]

Balanced is better would only use high performance if I cant see the FPS but then I would be wary of some electrical failure so I would choose lower settings or resolution. With resolution being first option to lower for more FPS.

[Cathulhu]

Use Balanced. This will reduce power usage when not under load.
PC will still use full power then applications or games require it.

[r.linder]

Always use Balanced.

High performance just forces the minimum CPU state to always be 100% so your CPU is always boosting, which only raises idle power usage and idle temperatures, it does not increase performance under gaming or heavier loads because they're already boosting their best. High performance plan is for lighter loads but it's not necessary, it makes your CPU run hotter and louder when it doesn't need to.

[plat]

I use Balanced. I have tried High Performance multiple times across multiple use-scenarios and have concluded it is not worth the extra elec. usage per month. Performance-wise, I also don't notice any difference whatsoever. Maybe some do, depending on the cpu, I guess.

As I stated in another post on the same topic, maybe it's a decision better suited for laptops. If you do a quick search online, there are various threads going into this in greater detail.

[MoonC A T]

Originally posted by Escorve:

Always use Balanced.

High performance just forces the minimum CPU state to always be 100% so your CPU is always boosting, which only raises idle power usage and idle temperatures, it does not increase performance under gaming or heavier loads because they're already boosting their best. High performance plan is for lighter loads but it's not necessary, it makes your CPU run hotter and louder when it doesn't need to.

Does this reduce the life of your cpu?

edit: thank you for the kind words, AOI

[󠁳⁧⁧ ᲼᲼᲼᲼᲼᲼᲼]

Originally posted by ᴹᴼᴼᴺC A T:

Originally posted by Escorve:

Always use Balanced.

High performance just forces the minimum CPU state to always be 100% so your CPU is always boosting, which only raises idle power usage and idle temperatures, it does not increase performance under gaming or heavier loads because they're already boosting their best. High performance plan is for lighter loads but it's not necessary, it makes your CPU run hotter and louder when it doesn't need to.

Does this reduce the life of your cpu?

dope profil bro, and same question

[r.linder]

Originally posted by ᴹᴼᴼᴺC A T:

Originally posted by Escorve:

Always use Balanced.

High performance just forces the minimum CPU state to always be 100% so your CPU is always boosting, which only raises idle power usage and idle temperatures, it does not increase performance under gaming or heavier loads because they're already boosting their best. High performance plan is for lighter loads but it's not necessary, it makes your CPU run hotter and louder when it doesn't need to.

Does this reduce the life of your cpu?

edit: thank you for the kind words, AOI

Originally posted by ᠌ ⁧⁧ ᴀᴏɪ:

Originally posted by ᴹᴼᴼᴺC A T:

Does this reduce the life of your cpu?

dope profil bro, and same question

No, since the CPU will throttle if it's passing the safe threshold.

The worst it does is make your cooler work harder than it needs to when the CPU is idle or doing very basic tasks, which means a noisier system

Who wants their CPU to constantly boost and sound like a jet?

[MoonC A T]

Yeah, good points, thanks.

[CaT1o1]

I have been using like for years 'Ultimate Performance on the old PC.
I don't do that anymore.
Because when you are in the game, the GHz speed increases by itself.
And, if you have a laptop, it drains a faster battery.
So the Balanced is the best option.

[Bad 💀 Motha]

Originally posted by CaT1o1:

I have been using like for years 'Ultimate Performance on the old PC.
I don't do that anymore.
Because when you are in the game, the GHz speed increases by itself.
And, if you have a laptop, it drains a faster battery.
So the Balanced is the best option.

You are supposed to put it on High Performance when gaming. That's the point of it. You can't game on battery. When on battery use balanced or power saver.

[Viking2121]

Its never made a bit of difference for me switching between High and Balanced on multiple systems, I just leave it on Balanced so it lets my CPU clock down when its not doing a lot.

The power save option really hurts performance though.

[plat]

If you want to view/change the minimum and maximum cpu usage, go to Power Options in Control Panel, click on "change plan settings next to your plan choice, and then click "change advanced power settings" Under "Processor power management" you can click on the tiny "plus" thingy and view what you have.

Mine are 5% and 100% for minimum and maximum respectively. Those are the default values and they've been in place since whenever. I would think it would be a consideration for a cpu with relatively few cores/threads and slower clocks. It is actually a kind of over-clocking in a way.