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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I feel like this shouldn't be the case, I need to check it
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.
So what you're saying is that the CPU toggle don't work
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?
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
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
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...
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
It should be maybe I fat typed something
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My bad
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),
Spl sppt fppt
Is performance the Sport profile in HHD?
Yes and it's completely wrong
Because I quickly did the numbers before I went on holodays
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?
Yes, on the ai 8 they don't need to
I will rework the kernel driver once I'm back and fix the values
Thank you very much!
Hey @antheas, any idea why I can't set custom TDP values below 25W?
in beta there is a potential fix
I did the update and unfortunately not. When setting any TDP 17W for example, the CPU turbo boosts and then settles at 20W.
Also now the back buttons no longer open up HHD/Keyboard. 😅
I really feel bad for constantly bothering you. What would be a better way to give feedback to the Bazzite team? Create a ticket on Github?
Moving forward, the paddles will not work by default
If you want to reenable them, tick dinput mode under controller settings
The way it used to work was quirky and caused issues with dual boot
Thanks, good to know.