Msi gf63 12ve undervolting
Hello everyone!
I want to share my experience using the msi gf63 12ve laptop, and my attempts to undervolt it.
In general, the laptop is more than satisfactory to me. Over the past two years of use, I have played all the games I wanted to play at fairly high settings and have only caught overheating once during all use, but this one time was enough to send the laptop to the service, where I was told that the processor had failed. Since it was a warranty repair, because the failure occurred after half a year of use, it didn't really worry me, but it calmed me down a little, because I didn't have to repair it with my own money))
I see a lot of hate coming from users for its cheap assembly, weak hinges, single fan, but this is my first gaming laptop that was bought with my own hard-earned money) Therefore, buying it was a bit impulsive, and in general I wanted MSI, knowing that once it was a company that made cool laptops with no less cool hardware inside, but since then their policy has changed a bit.
So, after a short story, I'll move on to the problem itself, which is why it all started - overheating.
Or rather, a temperature of 95 degrees and powerful throttling that haunts me in all tasks that require some kind of powerful processor.
At first I thought to reduce the heating threshold, like let it throttle, but at a lower temperature, for example 80-85 degrees, but when I went into the BIOS, failure awaited me - the absence of any parameter that is at least similar to what I am looking for.
Then, I sat on Reddit for a while and realized that it turns out that the manufacturer simply hid most of the settings, so using the combination of left ALT/right SHIFT and CTRL/F2, I finally opened this BIOS, finally resetting the temperature limit from 95 to 87 I did not see any changes AT ALL, the processor still throttles at 95 degrees!!
Then I started to crawl around Reddit in search of processor undervolting, although I don't understand why it could be dangerous because you're just dropping the operating voltage at a constant frequency, and if you drop too much, you might just get a blue screen, after which you need to add the voltage back and no one will be able to do anything (if my opinion is wrong, please correct me, because the conclusion was made just by reading a few articles on this topic)
And as it turned out, Intel had blocked access to processor undervolting, and all that was possible was to change the resistance parameters of the PL1/PL2 input keys, or AC/DC.
Which I did, thanks to several people from Reddit, if I don't forget, I'll attach their posts.
Therefore, after watching more than one video, reading the Reddit that I was able to find, because for some reason there were very few people who do this)))))))
I reduced the factory AC/DC 230 to 140 with the gemini turned on, and as a result I got STILL 95 degrees) I serviced the laptop myself, replaced the thermal paste with arctic mx-4, cleaned the fans, wiped the laptop itself with alcohol wipes every week to remove dust (it's very dirty, it worries me)
And I also saw that someone suggested changing the undervolting parameters through the throttlestop program, but it doesn't have access to changing the parameters.
Here are my laptop specs: Intel core i5 12450H Rtx 4050 6 GB 16 GB ddr4 512 ssd PCIe 4.0 1 TB SATA/600