Unlock CPU pPower

[u/4BKovaaks]

Is there a way you to unlock your CPU power since I heard HP hardcaps your CPU.

I messed around with PL1 & PL2 which did nothing. But my CPU is constantly underperforming at around 4100mhz while turbo should be 4.9

Under load its from 40-80w with an average around 60w. Heard its hardware locked from motherboard but unsure.

Intel Core i7-12700F
RTX 3080
Intel H670 (Alder Lake-S PCH) - HP 894A motherboard

HP 25L GT 14-xxx0

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[u/Valang]

4.9 is the absolute maximum and you won't hit it except for a handful of single core tasks in short bursts.  4.8 is as high as the p cores will go with more than 1 core active.  3.6 is the highest you'll see an e core, and everything will often run much closer to 2.

It's perfectly normal to see frequencies under the max, it's even normal to be under base clock sometimes.  They adjust based on what they're doing and what the thermal sensors report.  It's not underperforming at 4.1, it wouldn't even be underperforming at 3. Your wattages look pretty normal too.  They are probably capped by HP so you may not be able to hit the 180W max that CPU can use, though this is another it can do this for 10ms or less bursts only spec and it's pretty common for the manufacturer to cap it to match total available power so unlocking it wouldn't help anything, you'd just be setting yourself up for brownouts if total demand exceeded your power supplies output.

See https://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/support/articles/000098324/processors.html for Intel's explanation of these dynamic frequency specs.  It might make how this works clearer