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Michael Campagnaro
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* Double-click the `Turn off Power Throttling` policy.
* Select Enabled.
* Enable ultimate power plan (alternatively make a new plan and set the min/max processor speed to 100%)
* Open cmd as admin, run `powercfg -duplicatescheme e9a42b02-d5df-448d-aa00-03f14749eb61`
* Can now select the ultimate power plan in power options.
* Create a power plan for software benchmarking
* This will disable turbo boost and general lock the frequency to base-ish clock. This can help
keep cpu temps stable (hot temps affect clock) and it avoids variable clock changes.
* AFAIK this only works for Intel CPUs; not sure how to do the same thing on AMD.
* In the power plan set the processor min/max speed to 99%.
* Optional: disable Windows Defender real-time protection:
* This can speed up compilation times since Defender will scan every file written to disk. I was
able to shave off ~2-5 seconds in a particular project.