The CPU on a Windows computer runs at less than a third of its potential maximum speed at any given time. This allows the PC to save energy when there is no need to have a computer at full power and to better distribute resources among the various applications.
If you want to keep the CPU at 100% or, as you would say in English, in "Full Throttle" mode (which means maximum efficiency), you must configure an option in energy saving and use an external program.
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Then go to the Control Panel -> Power Options -> Select High Performance and then go to Change combination settings .
In the window that appears, press on the advanced settings, scroll the list and expand where it says " Saving processor energy ".
In Minimum level and Maximum level, always set 100% and activate the system cooling criteria.
This is the general recommended setting on a desktop PC, but on a laptop you might prefer not to keep a minimum CPU level equal to the maximum, 100%.
If you use a combination of balanced power saving and not full power, the CPU remains underutilized unless called by some program.
In these conditions, if you want to maximize the use of the processor not for everything, but only for a program, then you can use a small tool called Fullthrottle Override that allows you to maximize CPU performance for a given program that means using the maximum performance plan for one application only.
You can choose programs, such as Google Chrome or Firefox or a video game that uses many system resources in order to take advantage of the CPU at full power.
After the download, run the installer and, once finished, start using Fullthrottle immediately without restarting Windows.
Press the right mouse button on the program icon near the clock on the Windows desktop and open the menu.
Fullthrottle has three modes: " Full Throttle ", " Automatic " and " disabled " -
Full Throttle is Windows' high performance power scheme.
Automatic is the standard mode for increasing or decreasing performance according to the use being made.
By pressing on Add Program, you can select the EXE file of the program that you want to always be at maximum performance.
For Chrome, locate the chrome.exe file located in C: \ Users \ pomhey \ AppData \ Local \ Google \ Chrome \ Application \ chrome.exe.
This is the most useful part of the program, which allows you to keep a low energy plan but give full power to the most used programs.
For an added program, you can enable or disable Full Throttle with a click.
Fullthrottle only works if started in Windows administrator mode.
When you exit the program, everything will automatically return to the energy plan chosen in the Control Panel.
It seems obvious to me that this program is useless if you choose a maximum performance plan as configured in the first part of the article.
FullThrottle has a different function than the CPU Priority system which instead serves to decide which program takes precedence in the use of resources.
In this regard, you can read the article on how to raise the priority of processes to increase CPU performance, which can be done by the process task manager.
NOTE: In Windows 10, power throttling can be activated or deactivated using the energy plan cursor which opens by clicking on the battery icon on the taskbar.
This is the power limitation feature in Windows 10 .
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