Power plans
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What it means
Windows' presets for how aggressively the CPU saves power versus stays awake. The performance plans stop it from downclocking and parking cores during light moments.
More detail
On many rigs that means a snappier feel mid-game, at the cost of a little more idle power draw. Switching between plans that already exist is a safe, reversible change — Compy can do it for you and records the exact previous plan to switch back. It's a genuine help on some systems and barely noticeable on others.
The Compy Blackbook holds 174 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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