ThrottleStop is a small application designed to monitor for and correct the 3 main types of CPU throttling that are being used on many laptop computers.
The left side of ThrottleStop contains a variety of options which can be used to bypass CPU throttling and on the right side is a Monitoring panel that shows you the current state of each thread on your CPU.
Some laptops are using clock modulation and multiplier reductions to lower the performance and power consumption of your computer. This is done deliberately to either allow your computer to run cooler or to allow your laptop to operate with a power adapter that is not sufficient to fully power your laptop and recharge its battery at the same time.
When using ThrottleStop, it is strongly recommended to monitor power consumption at the wall with a Kill-a-Watt meter or similar device and make sure that you don't exceed the power capabilities of your power adapter.
ThrottleStop is software which can benchmark CPU speed.
ThrottleStop features and highlights:
- AC Profile: Your computer will use this profile when plugged in
- Battery Profile - Your computer will use this profile when you switch to battery power
- Low Battery %: If you set this to 30% then your computer will switch profiles when the batter gets down to this level
- Low Battery Profile: Lets you select the profile for the above feature.
- Start Minimized: This option will force ThrottleStop to start up minimized to the system tray
- Minimize on Close: When clicking on the ThrottleStop close gadget, ThrottleStop will minimize instead of exiting
- AC - On, Battery - Off: This will cause ThrottleStop to go into monitoring mode when you switch from AC to Battery and to switch back to being Enabled when you plug back in
- Do not reset FID / VID on Exit: By default when ThrottleStop exits, it tries to set your CPU to its Intel default settings which should allow the operaing system to resume full control of your CPU. If you don't want this happening then use this option
- Unlock Bidirectional PROCHOT: This is a safety feature for the BD PROCHOT feature on the main page. It's generally not a good idea to turn off BD PROCHOT so this might get users to think a little harder about what they are doing
- ATI GPU or Nvidia GPU: If the graphics driver supports temperature monitoring, ThrottleStop will be able to report and log your GPU temperatures
New Features:
- Intel 4th Generation Core i Haswell CPU support.
- TDP Level Control for the ULV processors.
- report of throttling due to TDP limit or CPU package temperature.
- added PROCHOT (processor hot) offset reporting.
- improved Windows 7 and Windows 8 system tray / notification area icon support.
Compatibility with this software may vary, but will generally run fine under Microsoft Windows 10, 8, 8.1, 7, Vista and XP on either a 32-bit or 64-bit setup.
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