Ah shit. Wanted to put my 4080 to transcode over the weekend (AV1 is the shit) but I doubt I can do that while streaming Star Citizen during the free fly week.

Still awesome go have though.

This is why I disable turbo boost on all my Intel machines that don’t actually NEED single core performance.

My most used laptop is a 2019 16” i9 MacBook Pro that gets loud and hot as hell on the default power plan but simply limiting the CPU to 99% makes it whisper quiet, cool and it can run on an 18w iPad power brick with the as long as the brightness isn’t maxed out and I’m not stressing the Radeon 5500M GPU.

Same with my 10w micro Optiplex AD/MSSQL server; the old 4th gen i5 runs Windows server 2022 plenty fast and boot times are insanely quick. Sure, if it had a production database serving thousands of clients at a time then it would definitely crumble but I don’t need more power for a local AD/dev-staging db.