If you are on a PC running Windows, go to your power settings and:
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Make sure you select “show settings that aren’t currently available”.
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Select the “high performance” power settings.
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Go to the advanced settings for your power plan and disable active power management for USB.
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Make sure that PCI buss power management is disabled.
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Verify that “hard drive power management” or “hard drive spins down after [x] minutes” is set to “disabled” or “never”.
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Continue through these settings and disable any power management features, or set available resources to “100%”
- Note that you can set the CPU policy to a min of 5% and a max of 100% as this will allow adaptive processor power management which will help keep things cool.
- If your power settings for “high performance” have both set for “100%”, leave them that way.
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Set processor cooling policy to “active” cooling.
- Note that many motherboard BIOS settings will disable the fan if the processor temp is below some certain threshold. I set mine to a minimum of 50%,climbing rapidly at about 40/50°C, ramping up to 100% within about 20°C above that.
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If possible, set the GPU fan profile to behave similarly.
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Disable the quick start (or whatever it’s called), in the “unavailable settings” so that every shutdown is a total and complete shutdown. This will help eliminate strange behaviors from surviving a reboot or shutdown.