However, there’s a very good chance you won’t see the option to select Ultimate Performance on this page. Although, you can also set the Balanced power plan such that the Minimum Processor State is 100%. However, the Ultimate Performance plan sets 100% as the minimum, which means your CPU will constantly (and theoretically) run at 3.60GHz at all times. What this implies (theoretically), is that your CPU’s processing speed will stay in the range of 0.36GHz and 3.24GHz, based on what you’re using the system for.

Suppose that you have a 3.60GHz CPU and you’re on the Balanced power plan for which the Minimum Processor State is 10% and 90% is the maximum. This is significantly different from how the Balanced power plan is set up. This means regardless of whether your CPU cores are busy or not, your CPU will run at 100% power. The Ultimate Performance plan does this by setting the Minimum Processor State to 100%. Now, this buffer is typically only a few milliseconds, but reducing it further can still improve performance. The Ultimate Performance power plan does so by minimizing micro-latencies, which is the time buffer between when your system finds out that a hardware component needs more power, and the actual delivery of power to that component.

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