Your processor is acting up...
Your processor is acting up...
Hi everyone, I'm facing a problem with the power consumption of my laptop CPU (i7-7700HQ). TS is installed and all my profiles are configured as desired. I also use monitoring tools like HWInfo64 to gather more details about my system. Surprisingly, when idle or on battery, the reported CPU power draw fluctuates between 15W and 30W. The conservative settings I set for the "battery" profile in TS don't seem to influence the CPU's actual draw, even though it runs at 0.9GHz across all cores. On the "performance" profile, the draw increases significantly when all cores are active (around 3.4GHz). Interestingly, my laptop behaves more predictably at work in an office setting—TS shows only 1-5W during that time, which is helpful since it gives me about 2.5 hours of battery life. I suspect something unusual is happening when I'm at home, possibly due to background processes I haven't identified. I've checked Task Manager and Windows battery settings multiple times without finding any obvious power hogs, except "system," which seems misleading. I'm wondering if there are better ways to pinpoint the exact cause of this high idle power usage. Any advice would be really appreciated!
I also looked into it—there are two different WiFi routers in my home. One is connected via Ethernet upstairs, the other through Wi-Fi downstairs. Even when I turn everything off completely, it doesn’t affect anything.
That seems odd. Perhaps reach out to the local exorcist and ask if they’re available for a visit.