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Careful with those laptops though, they run really hot. I have the same one and my dedicated GPU is broken, possibly from overheating but I will admit I can't know for sure.
Undervolting is great on gaming laptops. Usually nets you a performance boost simply by reducing thermal throttling.
Even just a few mV has made a difference for me.
How’d ya do that?
intel-undervolt/amdctl for cpu, lact for amd gpu, gwe for nvidia gpu (although voltage control on linux with nvidia is not possible, you can get a similar result by overclocking+limiting power)
Ty :) will have a look into it.
In college I had an aluminum body laptop that mostly sat in its dock. I cut a sheet of thermal gap fill to the size of two heatsinks and put one over the cpu and one over the gpu. It shaved off a few degrees