Limit GPU usage on laptop?
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Hi, bit of a newbie question here as I recently started using hashcat on a laptop. To prevent overheating, is there a setting I can use that will throttle Hashcat's GPU usage to say 30% of its maximum? Can't see anything in the --help list about it.
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#2
-w 1 or --force together with the -u and -n could help, but it's always better to fix the main problem, i.e. not using a laptop and fixing the GPU/airflow cooling instead
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#3
(03-24-2019, 02:34 PM)VictorJack Wrote: Hi, bit of a newbie question here as I recently started using hashcat on a laptop. To prevent overheating, is there a setting I can use that will throttle Hashcat's GPU usage to say 30% of its maximum? Can't see anything in the --help list about it.

if you're using a nvidia card you could also limit the power consumption with the program nvidia-smi (comes with driver installation) like nvidia-smi.exe -pl 170 (limit to 170 watts)
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