throttled VS s-tui

Yes i know it sounds wild but I need to be able to focus on my programming tasks. I run linux on my system and with throttled installed, it gets noisy and i'm tired of it. I'm not a gamer but I use win10 and win11 VMs and compile source code and just every day tasks spin up this fan. Before I installed throttled ( https://github.com/erpalma/throttled ) it was out of control. I haven HP 840 G5 that hardly even spins up. I got this because i had the same one for work and noticed it never bothered me. I have compared some compile times on the i5 and the i7 and even my desktop, they are all about the same so I dont see why I should care about having an i7. Im willing to buy a new mobo with the i5 8250 and just use that. i bought the dual heatsink fan and waiting for that to arrive so i'll install that first. But can anyone else share their experience with an i5 vs i7 and fan noise?

I have a T480 with an i7-8650U and I am a little confused undervolting using throttled

It's the reverse. For some reason, the embedded controller (EC) on the T480 (and other later Intel Thinkpads) is aggressive with regards to throttling the CPU clock speed even when the temperature isn't that high. To solve this, someone made a program called throttled https://github.com/erpalma/throttled to fix the issue.

Planning to install Arch (EndeavourOS) on it. In the arch wiki and these forums, thermal throttling is mentioned per this post - https://www.reddit.com/r/thinkpad/comments/870u0a/t480s_linux_throttling_bug/. However this is 5yr old. Is throttling still an issue? And do you need to install throttled (https://github.com/erpalma/throttled) ?

Thermal throttling can be tweaked through throttled.

The machine throttles, under (only) Linux, when too law a CPU temperature is reached. Lenovo promised for months to fix this and then announced that it would not, after all, fix it. But the community came to the rescue.

The only thing with the X1C series though is that the thermals straight-up sucks; the laptop out of the box gets really hot really quick and throttles immediately. The first thing I did when I got it was undervolting the CPU with throttled, which helped a lot and increased my battery life significantly too. The fan basically only comes on under pretty heavy load now; before it sounded like it was about to achieve liftoff at about 20% cpu load.

This? https://github.com/erpalma/throttled

There's a way of doing it via s-tui.

I meet this weird situation after switch my laptop to archlinux from windows these days: the system cooling fan didn't spin at all when using s-tui stress Mode, even the core tempreture was up to 90 celsius shown by zenmonitor, but the fan acts normal in daily use. Can someone explan me why it could happen? the principles beind it is much more welcome!

One good, relevant monitoring tool is s-tui.

s-tui is useful for CPU frequency, temperature, and TDP monitoring (make sure to run it with sudo for power details). It also has a nice stress test.

For the CPU I can recommend s-tui which is basically a GUI for stress. You could of course also just run stress without a GUI

Dual Heat-pipe I'll keep this short the only answer to thermal throttling is undervolting your cpu! If you're actually curious to the impact it had keep reading. For the stress tests I use s-tui .

s-tui could give you more clues on what is happening with your system. If the in-built power profiles don't work, you could try throttled.