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The process of tweaking and testing different voltages will involve causing your computer to freeze, but this won’t harm anything and only requires a restart. Undervolting my CPU, temperatures dropped by 8 degrees C while under load. This means increased heat, which for a small system like the Blade can cause noisy fans and throttling of the CPU or GPU. Every CPU has its own sweet spot in terms of how much voltage it needs, however to prevent any possibility of instability all processors are set to use a significant excess. Undervolting your CPU is a win/win tweak.

In Power > Plugged In select Maximum Performance.

Go to Power > On Battery and set everything to Maximum Battery Life.

In Intel Graphics Settings (right click on your desktop, then click it).

Battery Settings > Check ‘Turn Battery Saver on automatically’ and flip the slider to 100% (this will limit the activity of certain windows apps when the laptop is unplugged).

Plugged in: Video playback performance bias.

On battery: Video playback power-saving bias.

Plugged in: (whatever your eyes can handle, this screen is bright AF).

I’m not convinced that will be the case on a Blade, especially after we undervolt the CPU, but it's up to you to decide if you want to eliminate a little excess heat at the cost of some CPU performance. There are worries out there that the extra heat leads to GPU throttling in some thin laptops. Turboboost is a built-in overclocking function in Intel processors, it gives a boost in performance, but leads to a relatively inefficient increase in heat and power usage.

Some folks recommend setting these to 99% in order to disable TurboBoost on the processor.

On battery: Passive (the processor will slow down before fans spool up).

Go into advanced power settings for your Balanced Profile and set these puppies: That’s great, because switching between power profiles is annoying.

Balanced Mode seems to be the only setting that Razer wants you to use, since by default there’s no ‘Power Saver’ or ‘High Performance’.

The hardware in these machines is overkill for most people need to accomplish on while running on battery, so it's hardly noticeable when we flip many of these settings to prioritize power savings. We’ll adjust Windows’ power management settings to fully utilize your system when it’s plugged in, then barely sip on the battery when it’s unplugged.

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Lastly, there’s a driver from Samsung that should optimize the speeds of your hard drive here.

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If this is a new system for you, first get drivers from Razer.

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It’s likely that you’ve already done this, or that Windows Update covered this step. NoOne’s guide, which I've referenced a ton, has some great nitty gritty details to sift through if you want a comprehensive breakdown of some other power-saving options. This guide won’t deal with networking optimization or super granular settings.

The already good battery life while doing browsing and writing went from 7 hours, to 8 or 9 hours.

Firestrike score went from 9,374 to 10,298.

CPU temperatures went from 87 degrees to 73 degrees C under load.

My results from these tweaks (on a 2017 Blade): And we can achieve a lot within those limitations. Finally, it won't require that you maintain a bunch of apps running in the background, or for you to constantly switch between power profiles for managing battery usage and CPU speeds. It will not require you to change mysterious experimental settings that nobody really understands. It will not involve exceeding any of the stock clock speeds.

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This guide will walk you through a series of no-compromises tweaks that will improve battery life, increase performance, and reduce temperatures (and consequently some of the loud fan noise).