throttled VS thinkpad-e14-linux

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

I myself have a gen 1 E14 I use on debian. Works great aside from the fingerprint sensor not working. See this github repo for an overview of potential problems with their workarounds.

Something of an obscure problem, but I found a repo on github with information about the E14 series running Linux. This particular part of it suggests flashing bios version 1.06 to fix the problem. This brings us to the problem I encountered.

I have an e14 gen2 and it works very well for web development and was like 650 EUR. Theres also a wiki page for the thinkpad e14 for running linux most things work ootb now tho.

FnKeys not working : Link Workaround (?)

clicking through to the linked repo i found a page on e14 trackpoint (snapshot) that looked relevant but echo "options psmouse elantech_smbus=0" >> /etc/modprobe.d/psmouse.conf && systemctl reboot didn't fix anything for me.

No I did it because I was setting up my device off the thonkpad e14 linux grub argument page that I created a while back. It has since been updated with a new method and I put a warning on it.

Found a solution in this guide: https://github.com/rodmaureirac/thinkpad-e14-linux/blob/main/tweaks/trackpoint/README.md. It fixed trackpoint and buttons for me. Intel version BTW.