Power settings? game mode?

[rchads89]

notice last night on windows 10 have a few more options than what i was used to back in the day I had a pc rig (13 years ago) on windows xp and windows 7

Power settings I have balanced and AMD ryzen setting which one should I use? I think as default it was on the AMD ryzen one?

Also game mode am I leaving this on also?

How do these settings impact anything?

Thanks

 

[d_brennen]

TBH I haven't touched game mode and just leave Ryzen balanced on

 

[rchads89]

TBH I haven't touched game mode and just leave Ryzen balanced on

The one called amd ryzen performance ?

 

[d_brennen]

Balanced. I don't have the GPU grunt to make use of any more than my 3700x standard boost profile

 

[rchads89]

Balanced. I don't have the GPU grunt to make use of any more than my 3700x standard boost profile

hmm I don't have that option only have standard balanced then ryzen amd performance

 

[d_brennen]

Maybe reinstall the latest AMD chipset drivers

 

[rchads89]

Found it Ryzen balanced it was actually under the windows set of options. Think I will leave it on Ryzen high performance as according to HW monitor the cpu was running at boost in games of 4.6ghz without it im running around 4.4ghz

 

[OZONE]

I personally leave it at balanced otherwise the CPU fails to downclock at rest.

 

[merlin6r]

Or be a complete anorak and make shortcuts to power plans for every mood

 

[Adam123]

i have game mode disabled and switch from balanced to high performance when gaming

 

[rchads89]

i have game mode disabled and switch from balanced to high performance when gaming

Sounds way to complicated that lol

 

[rchads89]

Or be a complete anorak and make shortcuts to power plans for every mood

Damn lol nah think I’ll just leave it on ryzen high performance to be honest I get 4.6 ghz boosted clocks while gaming

 

[Adam123]

Or be a complete anorak and make shortcuts to power plans for every mood

Just done this - saves some clicking. I like it

 

[merlin6r]

Just done this - saves some clicking. I like it

Also, in my BIOS my PC is set to come on at 7am, it takes an image of drive C and opens all game clients to update.

I copied the balanced plan shortcut into the startup folder so the PC starts up in balanced plan which is set to sleep after 1 hour.

It's then updated and asleep by 8-9am. At which point I just wake it up whenever I need it and change to Ryzen balanced for the rest of the day.

 

[merlin6r]

Just done this - saves some clicking. I like it

/doublepost