My experience upgrading to the AMD Board and preliminary battery life review

Windows:

  • Brightness set to 20-30%
  • Set power mode to best power efficiency
  • Turn off bluetooth
  • Uninstall unused apps
  • Disable unused services
    (Another thing you can do is disable location tracking but I like to leave it on for Find my Device)
  • Set Samsung 990 Pro to maximum power saving in Samsung Magician (You will lose some capacity if you do this)

Power Plan Settings:

  • Enable primary nvme idle timeout and set that 100 ms on battery
  • Minimum processor state to 5%
  • Link state power management to maximum power savings
  • Sleep and screen off in 3 minutes
  • Enable USB selective suspend
  • Enable maximum power savings for USB 3.1

AMD Adrenaline

  • Power savings for iGPU

BIOS:

  • Power button led to minimum brightness
  • iGPU configuration to “auto” (Not sure if this affects power consumption but it does reduce RAM usage)

Another app you can use is O&O Shutup 10 which allows you to disable some hidden services.

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