Just wondering about best way to treat my battery

[Heggybhoy]

Well I've had my gaming laptop for a few months and was just wondering the best way to treat the battery, I game every  day or night and I've always got it plugged in. My query is should I unplug the wire from laptop and just leave battery plugged in to the wall or take battery out the wall completely at night??? Thank you for any replies.

[Paul_Tikkanen]

Hi:

On today's notebooks they use smart batteries and smart chargers which means you can pretty much leave the charger connected to the battery at all times.

What I do is once a month, I unplug the charger from the notebook and run the battery down to the low battery warning and then I charge it up again.

HP has a document that provides tips for getting the most life out of your notebook's battery.   See the link below.

HP Notebook PCs - Improving Battery Performance (Windows) | HP® Customer Support

There is also this support document for testing and calibrating the battery.

HP Notebook PCs - Testing and Calibrating the Battery (Windows) | HP® Customer Support

[Heggybhoy]

Thanks for your reply mate. I've turned the power management state down a bit as well from 100% to 97% .I'm a single player gamer just been playing on comfort mode with max fans on  and I know this is a different issue but have the hp omen 10750h 2060rtx on a cooling pad using msi afterburner, playing sleeping dogs the on screen CPU  temp jumps around like crazy from between 65 to 88 ,wish it would stay settled so I could gauge it better. Is it possible turning down power state management can actually up temps as it feels like it was cooler at 100% but maybe I'm just being paranoid lol. Thanks again.

[Paul_Tikkanen]

You're very welcome.

I recommend you start a new topic on that because I don't know what would be causing the huge temperature variations.