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The original was posted on /r/gaminglaptops by /u/Frankie114514 on 2023-08-25 15:31:06+00:00.

Hi, everyone.

I have been playing with my old computer recently trying to boost its performance. It is a Lenovo Yoga 720 15 with an I7 7700HQ.

I noticed that there are two throttlings. One is power limit throttling while the other is thermal throttling. The latter is probably due to the degradation of the thermal paste and I decide to replace it with a new thermal pad. The first one is more tricky, the power consumption of cpu will be limited to 30W and trigger power limit throttling after a few seconds even if I set PL1 to 45W. Here are my two questions:

(1) Are there any methods to increase the threshold temperature of thermal throttling?

(2) Is it possible to change the bios to increase the power supply so as to prevent the CPU from power limit throttling?