Reduce voltage or adjust clock speed to improve performance or save power.
Reduce voltage or adjust clock speed to improve performance or save power.
I’m working on rebuilding an old desktop and plan to run it as a NAS. It’s a Ryzen 1700 on an Asus crosshair Vi with a M.2 SSD—way more powerful than what I need right now. I’m mainly syncing and backing up a game project between my desktop and laptops, so power savings are important. My first idea is to disable some cores or clock speeds, turn off RGB, shut down extra USB ports, and remove any other features I don’t use. I have limited experience with underclocking or undervolting; I only adjusted a few sliders for GPU mining a while ago. I’m looking for helpful resources or videos that explain how to tweak hundreds of settings to cut power consumption.
I’d use a wall power meter to monitor usage. Cores should stay mostly off when idle. Reducing maximum clocks and voltage can assist slightly under medium to high loads, but at idle the systems are already efficient. The main idle consumption comes from RAM, chipsets, and other components that can’t be easily undervolted.