Windows has provided us with several power plan settings depending on how you utilize the PC. Most of us are familiar with the Balanced and Power saver mode. However, there is a third option named Ultimate Performance mode.
Ultimate Performance mode allows the system to use maximum hardware resources, usually for higher-end PCs, such as servers or a workstation. However, you may enable this power plan mode on every PC and give the system a slight performance boost, on idle, under stress and anywhere in between.
How does Ultimate Performance Work and Is It Safe?
Ultimate Performance mode gets rid of micro-latency when supplying power. This latency is the time between the system, determining when a hardware component requires more power and delivering that power to the component.
Although this time difference is minuscule, it can be what’s stopping your PC from achieving maximum performance. However, operating on ultimate performance also means that the hardware components suffer from extreme temperatures.
In other power plan configurations, the hardware thermal throttle once it reaches anextreme temperature. However, in Ultimate performance mode, the system does not let the component thermal throttle, meaning that the hardware constantly runs at high temperatures.
Tocool down the components, the system fan will continuously run at a high RPM. Once the system reaches extreme temperature, the fan alone may not be enough to cool down the hardware components. Hence, the entire PC may run into acritical erroror may even abruptly shut down.
Ultimate Performance mode can benefit you if you want your system to get a slight boost. However, constantly running your PC in high-performance mode may drastically decrease your system’s life span.
How to Enable Ultimate Performance Mode in Windows?
Before you enable Ultimate Performance, here are someinstructions for a laptop user.Since Ultimate Performance uses high power, ensure that you only allow Ultimate Performance mode when your laptop is plugged into a wall outlet. The laptop’s battery will drastically decrease if the laptop is not plugged into a power source.
Now that you know a little about Ultimate Performance mode and whether it is good for you, let us see how you may enable it.
As with otherpower plan settings, you may change the power plan to Ultimate Performance mode in Power Options. You can also change advanced power settings in Ultimate Performance mode if you don’t like the presets.
If you cannot find Ultimate Performance on Power Options, you will need to activate itusing the command prompt. Besides Ultimate Performance mode, you may also add High-performance mode.
