Undervolting a Gaming Laptop
Learn to reduce heat and Noise on your CPU by Undervolting.
Recently I bought a gaming laptop, an MSI GF65 Thin SER10. It is a great laptop for gaming and I am super pleased with it. However, when running a new game, like New World, the computer would sit around 95–100 degrees celsius. The fans would try to solve it by spinning at max RPM and the laptop would sound like a swarm of vacuum cleaners.
Gaming laptops are known to produce a lot of noise and build up very high temperatures on the components inside. It is not strange, all those components squeezed tight into such a small unit.
Luckily there are a few tricks that can be used to decrease the heat, and by doing that, making your laptop last longer and less noisy.
Enable Voltage control in BIOS
Many new laptops do not allow volting to be performed unless activated in the BIOS. In my case, and many other MSI computers you have to activate Advanced Bios to enable it. I use an MSI GF65 THIN laptop when doing this article.
When opening the regular BIOS on a new MSI, there are almost no options available. MSI has its way of accessing something called Advanced BIOS. The steps to find it is the following
- Turn off your laptop
