My Biostar clock is hitting a thermal wall and throttling in No Rest for the Wicked. Should I tweak the voltage curve and backup the OC config to stay stable?

During intense combat in No Rest for the Wicked, my Biostar chipset frequency was bouncing between 3.8-4.2GHz. The pump PWM duty cycle was ramping up, but the frequency curve kept hitting thermal protection and dropping. I realized that just cranking the fans wouldn't fix the voltage instability causing the drops. I first tried loosening the power limits in an OC tool; the clock went up, but the temps spiked, triggering a hard thermal throttle. I then used a stress test tool to quantify the thermal stability and found that jumps in the 76-82℃ range were triggering the downclock. I realized voltage and cooling had to be tuned in tandem. After adjusting the fan curve in the GPU utility, the core frequency finally stabilized under pressure. There were still some voltage spikes, so I had to layer in a more aggressive cooling strategy. Overclocking this board is a lesson in patience. Frequency stability is a balancing act. I could feel the heat radiating from the VRMs, and my input lag was floating around 10-15ms. Finally, the validation tool confirmed the OC backup was stable. It took a while to dial in, but the performance is now rock solid.