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[–] [email protected] 5 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

But seriously though, I cut off a good 30-40% from my GPUs power limit and would you look at that, I still enjoy the games I play.

Have to run most of them at low to medium settings anyway, so might as well.

Only thing left to improve it further would be undervolting, I should try that at some point.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

Undervolt it too. Depending on what GPU you have, you might drop an additional 20-40% without a performance hit. An older GTX1070 I used to have dropped power consumption by 40%. The energy savings weren't that big, but it was nice and quiet

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Currently using a GTX 970 on EndeavourOS, I believe tuxclocker can do undervolting, haven't tried it yet

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Undervolting has the added benefit of reducing silicon degradation. I don't know how much it'll help your GPU, considering it's age, but it's something

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

I've put it through absolute overclocking hell, and it still runs as happily as it always did, so there's that.