HHD Max TDP on MSI Claw A8

The max TDP on the Claw A8 is limited to 30W, even when I uncheck the system TDP limits setting in HHD. Any way to change that?
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antheas
antheas•2w ago
I feel like this shouldn't be the case, I need to check it
bibiblublu
bibiblubluOP•2w ago
Thanks, appreciate it. By the way, is there any way to limit the CPU clock in Bazzite besides turning turbo off and EPP? The A8 runs extremely hot when the CPU gets above 4 Ghz. Using EPP only helps when there is GPU load, but if there is not enough GPU load, all the remaining power seems to go to the CPU and it clocks up to 5 Ghz no matter the EPP setting.
antheas
antheas•2w ago
So what you're saying is that the CPU toggle don't work
bibiblublu
bibiblubluOP•2w ago
The turbo toggle? That works but 2 Ghz is often too low and with turbo 5 Ghz is too high. On Windows I would ideally set it to 3.2 - 3.5 Ghz. Any way to do that with Bazzite?
antheas
antheas•2w ago
It's a problem that hasn't come up before Simpledeckytdp might be able to I also might tweak the boost setting to be more granular
bibiblublu
bibiblubluOP•2w ago
Simpledecky unfortunately only offers GPU clock limits Either an A8 and/or Z2E issue. The cooling in the A8 is pretty underwhelming and the Z2E seems to run pretty hot, especially the CPU I managed to limit the max CPU clock using cpupower! By the way, using SimpledeckyTDP i was able to get TDPs > 30W until I updated the newest Bazzite release on testing. Now TDP controls in Simpledecky don't work anymore at all and the 30W in HHD is the max limit currently Weird behaviour
antheas
antheas•2w ago
Hhd will override the CPU clocks as you change settings Also hhd is using msi tdp controls So it's limited by whatever msi set + the kernel driver Although I want to say 37 should be the limit...
bibiblublu
bibiblubluOP•2w ago
I am playing around with HHD right now and the CPU clock limit seems to be stable On Windows it is 35W for the A8. Is HHD differentiating between 8 AI+ and A8? Because for the 8 AI+ it is 30W and HHD is currently maxed out at 30W
antheas
antheas•2w ago
It should be maybe I fat typed something
antheas
antheas•2w ago
My bad
bibiblublu
bibiblubluOP•2w ago
No problem, happens. I appreciate your work very much By the way, I would not mind 40W instead of the 35W 😄 What are the 2nd and 3rd values in the ()? "quiet": (28, 45, 55),
antheas
antheas•2w ago
Spl sppt fppt
bibiblublu
bibiblubluOP•2w ago
Is performance the Sport profile in HHD?
antheas
antheas•2w ago
Yes and it's completely wrong Because I quickly did the numbers before I went on holodays
bibiblublu
bibiblubluOP•2w ago
I was wondering why the values were so close to each other. I am mostly using custom anyway By the way, the manual fan settings need to be re-toggled every time after waking the device up. Is that a bug?
antheas
antheas•2w ago
Yes, on the ai 8 they don't need to I will rework the kernel driver once I'm back and fix the values
bibiblublu
bibiblubluOP•2w ago
Thank you very much!

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