i7-1165G7 C-States support

mrsunfire

@stephenw10 Understanding :). And of course trying to get the lowest temperatures for "idle".

stephenw10

That CPU have a built in GPU? We have seen other users get significantly lower power usage by enabling the driver so that is put in an idle state. There's nothing in pfSense to do that though, it's all command line stuff.

Steve

mrsunfire

@stephenw10 Yes it has an iGPU. What are those commands you spoke about?

stephenw10

See: https://forum.netgate.com/topic/175364/improving-power-consumption-on-nuc-11-pro

fireodo

@mrsunfire said in i7-1165G7 C-States support:

Yes it has an iGPU. What are those commands you spoke about?

Stimulated by your discussion I made a little Test here and my system (i5-4300Y with iGPU) is going 1~2 W lower only by loading i915kms.ko
(I didnt touch the C-States because this machine is quite busy and the CPU will not go to max State C3 in my case)

kldload /boot/kernel/i915kms.ko

Its not very much but for a 24/7 machine it makes sense!

Regards,
fireodo

mrsunfire

@fireodo Am I right that the driver is getting loaded if I have plug in a display via HDMI?

fireodo

@mrsunfire said in i7-1165G7 C-States support:

Am I right that the driver is getting loaded if I have plug in a display via HDMI?

That I have not verified - my system is headless.

stephenw10

Connecting a display does not trigger the driver to load.

mrsunfire

@stephenw10 Thank's for clearing up. I did enter kldload /boot/kernel/i915kms.ko into command line via GUI. Was that correct? Or am I wrong?

fireodo

@mrsunfire said in i7-1165G7 C-States support:

Was that correct?

Yes that is correct.

stephenw10

Yes, you can do that to test it at run time. If it does anything useful you can add it as a loader variable so it loads at boot.

Steve