How to stabilize power delivery for Intel i7-14700KF?
In those heavy lighting scenes, my frame rate would dive from 70 FPS to 30 FPS, which is just pathetic. The i7-14700KF was pulling over 253W, triggering a brutal thermal throttle that crashed the clock speed from 5.4GHz down to 3.2GHz. I tried the BIOS 'Enhanced Cooling' mode, but the fans just screamed while the core stayed at 95℃—a totally useless effort. I switched to Offset mode, set a -0.05V negative offset, and capped the PL1 power limit at 220W. In CPU-Z stress tests, the frequency fluctuation dropped to 0.1GHz and temps fell from 98℃ to 82-86℃. I did lose about 3% in single-core benchmarks, but since the massive frame drops are gone, the actual game feels way smoother. Temps now sit at 78-84℃. I backed up this voltage profile using the BIOS export tool so I don't have to do this again.
