Guidance on under-volting

[uditha152d02db]

Hey everyone,
I’m a bit of a noob when it comes to this stuff, so I could really use some input. My laptop (MSI Raider GE68HX 13VG with an i7 13700HX, 32GB RAM, and RTX 3070 8GB) has been running quite hot lately.
I’m pretty sure the thermal paste needs to be reapplied, but I’m holding off until I can find a reliable computer store in my area to do it—honestly, I’m a bit nervous to attempt it myself.
In the meantime, with a bit of help from ChatGPT, I underclocked the system using ThrottleStop. It now idles in the high 40s to 50s and peaks around 80–90°C under load.

I've attached screenshots of my current ThrottleStop settings. Just wondering—do these numbers look okay? Are there any settings I should tweak further? I ran a few benchmarks with 3DMark, and interestingly, my scores seem about the same as before, so I don’t think I’ve lost much performance.

Appreciate any advice!

 

[glynnk158902e7]

The ThrottleStop monitoring table shows that several of the voltages are set to 0.0361. This can happen if you initially run ThrottleStop when core isolation memory integrity or anything else VBS related is turned on. This can corrupt the ThrottleStop.INI configuration file. When this happens, it is best to exit ThrottleStop, delete the ThrottleStop.INI configuration file, reboot and start again.

Your ThrottleStop settings will cripple the performance of your laptop. That seems to be your goal so your settings are perfect for what you are trying to accomplish. You are probably not seeing a big drop in performance because your CPU would have been thermal throttling. Instead of allowing the CPU to reduce its performance, now you are doing pretty much the same thing.

Your screenshot shows peak power consumption of only 21.5 Watts but the peak CPU package temperature was already up to 88°C. Your computer is overdue for some maintenance. You would be best off to watch some YouTube videos and do this maintenance procedure yourself. Order some Honeywell PTM 7950 thermal interface material. It has much better long term results compared to many similar thermal pastes that the local computer store will likely be using.

When undervolting, the Intel GPU and iGPU Unslice should be set equal to each other in ThrottleStop.

 

[uditha152d02db]

so I'm a complete noob when it comes to optimizing my system. I've been looking for Honeywell PTM 7950; unfortunately only place I could find was on Amazon; and it does not look like the original ones which are 0.25mm thick; the ones available are 0.20mm and takes a month to deliver here. Anyhow, I'm goanna keep looking for a way to get them down here.

In the meanwhile, I took the laptop to a computer shop, and had them clean out the fans; grill and reapply some generic thermal paste.
I did a reset on the thottlestop; these are the settings now.

Any suggestions, on what settings to put to get the best out of the system? Also looks like everything got locked again in the bios.

 

[uditha152d02db]

I unlocked overclocking settings in the bios; this is my current throttle stop settings; and I did a stress test via 3dmark speedway; this is the log file after the test

 

[drek4]

so I'm a complete noob when it comes to optimizing my system. I've been looking for Honeywell PTM 7950; unfortunately only place I could find was on Amazon; and it does not look like the original ones which are 0.25mm thick; the ones available are 0.20mm and takes a month to deliver here. Anyhow, I'm goanna keep looking for a way to get them down here.

In the meanwhile, I took the laptop to a computer shop, and had them clean out the fans; grill and reapply some generic thermal paste.
I did a reset on the thottlestop; these are the settings now.

Any suggestions, on what settings to put to get the best out of the system? Also looks like everything got locked again in the bios.

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Remove Disable Turbo, this is very good for battery autonomy, but not for gaming or benchmarks.

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If you can access in FIVR the core speeds, change to Core 0,1 50/50, Core 2,3 48/48, Core 4,5 47/47, Core 6,7 46/46
I doubt you can access undervolting, it has been blocked by MS and Intel, with the help of MSI, but you can change in your BIOS,
you did unlock your BIOS to Advanced BIOS right?

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PL1/PL2 set at 65/75W then clamp and lock, unless you use on battery a lot do not clamp & lock then, Turbo Time Limit set at 40
Do not forget to restart TS and your laptop, to make sure new settings stick.

When use on battery set PL1/PL2 to 45/50W and Disable Turbo, when on battery only, unless you binge on youtube all night.