Windows 10: The high perfomance power plan was enabled on my pc for over 8 months. What could be the...

Yesterday, I found out that the high-performance power plan was enabled on my PC. This was probably been enabled for over 8 months! I have an intel core i7 CPU and RTX 2060 graphic card. For now, no damages can be seen. Don't worry I enabled the power plan back to balanced. When I'm gaming the CPU temperature is between 50 to 60 celsius after I enabled back the balanced power plan and when I'm not gaming CPU temperature is between 35 to 45 celsius. Do you know how much damage has been done to my CPU? Should I be stressed? Thanks!

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Power plan?

Upon checking, it seems that there's nothing wrong with your system. It is usual that you have to double-click your mouse before your monitor wakes up.

For the meantime, we suggest changing the power plan by following the steps below:

• Press Windows key + S.
• Type in Power Settings.
• On the pop-up window, choose Additional power settings.
• Select High performance.

After changing the power plan, we suggest that you monitor the changes made and check if that will work for you.

Get back to us if you need further help.

 

Is it worth enabling High Performance Power Plan on a desktop PC?

Hello all,

I would like to know if it is worth enabling High Performance Power Plan on a desktop PC while gaming?

And if it is,then I would please you to tell me how do I automatically enable the High Performance Power Plan only while gaming?

Thanks.

My OS is Win 10 x64 Version 1909 (OS Build 18363.778).

 

High performance Power plan missing.

Hi,

Thank you for writing to Microsoft Community Forums.

We understand the concern as you are unable to create a new power plan with high performance.

In order to get clarity and to assist you accordingly, please reply with the answers to the questions below:

• What is the Version and Build of Windows 10 installed? (Type
  winver in Windows search/Run command)
  
• Is the PC connected to a domain/organization network?
  

Meanwhile, we would suggest you to perform these steps to restore the default power plans on the PC.

1. Click on Start menu and type
   CMD, right click on CMD and select Run as Administrator.
   
2. Type the following command and press Enter:
   powercfg –restoredefaultschemes
   
3. Once the process is complete, then restart the PC and check
   

If the issue persists, then perform these registry changes and check..

Note:
Important this section, method, or task contains steps that tell you how to modify the registry. However, serious problems might occur if you modify the registry incorrectly. Therefore, make sure that you follow these steps carefully. For added protection,
back up the registry before you modify it. Then, you can restore the registry if a problem occurs.

Follow the steps to take backup of registry

1. Open the Run dialog box by pressing the Windows key and the R key together.
2. Type Regedit and hit the Enter key.
3. When the Registry Editor opens, navigate to the following location:
   HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Power
4. In the right pane, double click on the DWORD entry named CsEnabledand
   set it to 0.
5. Click Ok and restart the PC to check.

Let us know the results. We will certainly assist you further.

Aditya Roy

Microsoft Community – Moderator