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		minusf on April 7, 2019 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: How to Improve MacBook Pro Performance and Thermal... undervolting the CPU (with Intel extreme tuning) can also help without opening up the notebook. unfortunately that's Windows only. not sure what is for macos...

bluegreyred on April 8, 2019 [–]

Older Haswell rMBPs can be undervolted with but it requires disabling SIP which is not recommended.

Read the warnings and disclaimers and inspect the source code:

https://github.com/sicreative/VoltageShift

newer MBPs (2016+) appear to be locked down.

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