throttled VS ukuu

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

You could also consider installing Kernel 6 on Mint. I used ukuu (https://github.com/teejee2008/ukuu) for that in the past, works quite well, even though the notifications when new versions are available are a bit annoying - you'll see what I mean when you get there :)

UKUU Ubuntu Kernel Update Utility can help with the kernel update.

The easiest way is to use UKUU https://github.com/teejee2008/ukuu

Hold the shift key at boot for the GRUB boot menu, select the older kernel and boot normally. In Ubuntu I'd recommend you install ukuu (https://github.com/teejee2008/ukuu) to remove the new version that's causing trouble.

Ukuu is now paid, as said in its github page. There is a fork of the old version of ukuu, which is actively maintained, called Mainline.

You can also try booting in nomodeset mode, which disables a lot of drivers and tries to run everything in software mode (extremely slow, but you might be able to get through the installer). If you can install it this way, it will probably still not boot after being installed, you need to boot the OS (already installed) in nomodeset again. Then you need to manually install a newer kernel on the OS. You can use Ukuu (here) to update the kernel on the currently running linux distro, for ubuntu based distros.

I have used the 5.11 (installed via the program Ukuu) and it worked well on my machines, except for one machine that needed throttleFix (and using the latter on 5.11 caused log spam). At present I use 5.8 on my machines (but both machines are laptops with Intel graphics).

You can install any kernel with ukuu tool

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