UN65U-M023M configure TDP-down

[Cor7ez]

Hello everyone,
I'm writing here in order to better understand how TDP is supposed to work in my mini-PC.

VivoMini UN65U-M023M
https://www.asus.com/us/Mini-PCs/VivoMini-UN65U/

CPU Intel i3-7100U
https://ark.intel.com/it/products/95442/Intel-Core-i3-7100U-Processor-3M-Cache-2_40-GHz

This CPU is equipped with TDP-down configurable technology, I've searched the web for some more clarifications on this; what I came up with is that in the past years a particular driver, named DPTF (Intel Dynamic Platform & Thermal Framework Driver) was used to configure TDP.
These drivers were realeased by the manufacturing companies (such as Asus) in compatibility with their Laptops' hardware.
There are no more updates for this driver after a Windows 8.1 version.

Is this technology not supported by my UN65U ?
Or is it managed automatically by the chipset's driver without possibility of configuration?

Thank you for any help!!

 

[hang-the-9]

There are power management drivers for your ASUS.

-Power Manager_2.02.09 - Power Manager V2.02.09 for Windows Win10 64bit.
-Power_Saver_2.00.05_A1 - Power Saver V2.00.05 for Windows Win10 64bit.

Past that, the difference from 15w to 7.5 watt is pretty much 0 in overall power use so I would not worry too much about this outside of theoretical functions of the CPU.

 

[Cor7ez]

There are power management drivers for your ASUS.

-Power Manager_2.02.09 - Power Manager V2.02.09 for Windows Win10 64bit.
-Power_Saver_2.00.05_A1 - Power Saver V2.00.05 for Windows Win10 64bit.

Past that, the difference from 15w to 7.5 watt is pretty much 0 in overall power use so I would not worry too much about this outside of theoretical functions of the CPU.

Hi and thank you for the help,
I installed them right now but they are only asus utilities

sadly they just offer something that Windows already does.

Do you mean the rest of the components combined consume a lot more power than the CPU?
I thought the CPU was the big deal here, the rest of the HW is:

2x Crucial Ballistix Sport LT 4GB DDR4-2400Mhz
Samsung SSD M.2. SM961 128 GB

I've also disabled the WI-FI board

 

[hang-the-9]

There are power management drivers for your ASUS.

-Power Manager_2.02.09 - Power Manager V2.02.09 for Windows Win10 64bit.
-Power_Saver_2.00.05_A1 - Power Saver V2.00.05 for Windows Win10 64bit.

Past that, the difference from 15w to 7.5 watt is pretty much 0 in overall power use so I would not worry too much about this outside of theoretical functions of the CPU.

Hi and thank you for the help,
I installed them right now but they are only asus utilities

sadly they just offer something that Windows already does.

Do you mean the rest of the components combined consume a lot more power than the CPU?
I thought the CPU was the big deal here, the rest of the HW is:

2x Crucial Ballistix Sport LT 4GB DDR4-2400Mhz
Samsung SSD M.2. SM961 128 GB

I've also disabled the WI-FI board

CPU is one of the main power users, but in your case you have a low voltage CPU that used 15 watts. The lower power mode drops it to 7.5 watts, that is pretty much 0 when it comes to power use of the system. It's like having 1/8th of a 60 watt light bulb on. Your TV when shut off uses about that much power for standby, as does your cable box and almost any other device that is plugged in but not in use like a microwave.

You are using more electricity finding out how to enable the lower power mode than you would in power cost savings over a year.