alt Hacker NewsBoth Windows 11 systems are configured with the “High performance” power plan, as are the two Windows Server VMs. In hindsight, I should have included this detail explicitly in the original post instead of only alluding to it.
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jiggawatts • today at 5:41 AM
Even if you do that, there are firmware-level overrides that most laptops won't allow you to override. If you did, the laptop would melt.
You might be benchmarking the chassis fans more than the CPUs!
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For others unfamiliar with Windows, according to https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/administrat... "High Performance" entails:
> Processors are always locked at the highest performance state (including "turbo" frequencies). All cores are unparked. Thermal output may be significant.