How to Undervolt Your CPU in Easy Steps

You can use Throttlestop to undervolt your Intel CPU

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Updated onOctober 4, 2023

updated onOctober 4, 2023

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Whether you have AMD or Intel CPU on your PC, although there are several power-efficient versions, sometimes you have to manually undervolt your CPU for optimal performance.

When you undervolt your CPU, you make sure that that CPU is drawing less power but delivering the same processing power.

In this guide, we will show you how you can undervolt your CPU in some easy steps. We will also be discussing the benefits of undervolting your CPU, its purpose, and more in this guide. Let us get right into it.

What is CPU undervolting?

Before you go ahead and check out the steps to undervolt your CPU, you must understand the basics and advantages of why you should undervolt your PC.

CPUs use different amounts of power to perform different tasks. When you play a game, the CPU uses a good amount of resources to let the user play the game smoothly. However, when doing normal tasks such as viewing your media files or playing songs, the resources aren’t used to the extreme.

When the CPU draws a high amount of power, there are a few downsides attached to it:

To avoid all such issues, you can opt to undervolt your CPU. This can be achieved by lowering the core clock frequency resulting in lower power consumption. The best part is that the performance of your PC isn’t affected in a major way.

Here are somepros of undervolting the CPU:

Is CPU Undevolting Safe?

As mentioned, undervolting your CPU is safe. However, it can be done wrong. Meaning, if you undervolt your PC too much then it willresult in your PC crashing, underperforming, poor performance, and whatnot.

You will alsocome across BSOD errors as well. You should make sure that when you are undervolting your CPU, you are following the steps carefully.

The good thing about undervolting your CPU process is that it can be reverted in case things go wrong. All you need to do is perform as asked in the steps to undervolt your CPU backward.

How to undervolt the CPU?

How to keep Throttlestop to be always on and run it when your PC boots up?

Throttlestop software is a tool to undervolt Intel CPUs. It does not support undervolting AMD CPUs. So, to undervolt an AMD CPU, you need to use another software, which we have explained below.

How to undervolt an AMD CPU?

So this is how you can undervolt your Intel or AMD CPUs. We have a guide that explains all the steps that you need to know on how tounderclock your NVIDIA or AMD GPU safely.

On the other side, if your system crashes when you overclock your CPU, you can check out our guide that does the needful to fix the issue.

Feel free to let us know in the comments below if you encounter any issues while following the above steps.

How to Undervolt Your CPU in Easy Steps#

What is CPU undervolting?#

Is CPU Undevolting Safe?#

How to undervolt the CPU?#

How to keep Throttlestop to be always on and run it when your PC boots up?#

How to undervolt an AMD CPU?#