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Undervolt Intel CPUs under Linux

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Warning!

This program is untested (apart from by myself) and it may damage your hardware! Use at your own risk.

undervolt

undervolt is a program for undervolting Intel CPUs under Linux. It works in a similar manner to the Windows program ThrottleStop (i.e, MSR 0x150). You can apply a fixed voltage offset to one of 5 voltage planes.

For more information, read here.

Installing

From PyPi:

$ pip install undervolt

From source:

$ git clone https://github.com/georgewhewell/undervolt.git

Examples

Read current offsets:

$ undervolt --read
core: 0.0 mV
gpu: -19.53 mV
cache: -30.27 mV
uncore: -29.3 mV
analogio: -70.31 mV

Apply -100mV offset to CPU Core and Cache:

$ undervolt --core -100 --cache -100

Apply -75mV offset to GPU, -100mV to all other planes:

$ undervolt --gpu -75 --core -100 --cache -100 --uncore -100 --analogio -100

Usage

$ undervolt -h
usage: undervolt [-h] [-v] [-f] [--core CORE] [--gpu GPU] [--cache CACHE]
                 [--uncore UNCORE] [--analogio ANALOGIO]
optional arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  -v, --verbose         print debug info
  -f, --force           allow setting positive offsets
  -r, --read            read existing values
  --core CORE           offset (mV)
  --gpu GPU             offset (mV)
  --cache CACHE         offset (mV)
  --uncore UNCORE       offset (mV)
  --analogio ANALOGIO   offset (mV)

Hardware support

Undervolting should work on any CPU later then Haswell.

System

CPU

Working?

Lenovo X1 Yoga Gen 2

i7-7600U

Yes

Credit

This project is trivial wrapper around the work of others from the following resources:

Many thanks to all who contributed.

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