Disable C-States in BIOS
Also searched as: c-states · c states · disable cstates
What it does
Stops CPU cores from entering low-power idle states.
The honest verdict
Graded risky. The myth that actively backfires: modern boost algorithms USE the freed power budget from idle cores to clock active cores higher. Disabling C-States raises heat and LOWERS peak boost. …
It's on Compy's refuse list. Compy will never apply this tweak — and if a guide already talked you into it, reversibility is the whole point of the app.
The full graded entry
The rest of this write-up — the specifics behind the grade — ships inside the app. The Blackbook publishes its verdicts here — the full write-ups stay in the book, on your rig, next to your own measurements.
The Compy Blackbook holds 191 graded entries like this one, judged against your hardware — and every change it does make is reversible, with the receipt to prove it.
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