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How To: Disable Intel Turbo Boost on Linux using systemd + intel_pstate

Leave a Comment / Fedora, GNOME, How To, linuxupdate, Ubuntu, Ubuntu 20.04, Ubuntu 20.10 / Jonathan Procter

My laptop has issues with coil whine, resulting in me needing to disable Intel Turbo Boost. I usually use a GNOME Extension like CPU Power Manager but at the time of writing that extension isn’t compatible with GNOME 40, and isn’t much use for non-GNOME users. Firstly elevate to sudo with sudo -i, then: nano […]

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How To: Fix Coil Whine and Squeaking (How to disable Turbo Boost)

There’s nothing worse than getting a new laptop, booting it up, and then hearing that incessant coil whine noise that kicks in and out. I’ve noticed it’s worse on the HP laptops we’ve used, but HP isn’t to blame. Intel is. In our testing, the issue seems to be related to Intel’s TurboBoost feature that