Solving VRM overheating on ASUS TUF B760M-PLUS D4 in God of War
During intense fights with giant bosses, my FPS would plummet from 80 to 30, and I honestly wanted to smash my keyboard. I checked the logs and saw the CPU clock dive from 5.0 GHz down to 3.2 GHz. The culprit? The VRMs on my ASUS TUF B760M-PLUS D4 were hitting 105℃, triggering a massive thermal throttle. I first tried capping the power limit at 125W in the BIOS, but that just killed my performance, dropping my overall FPS by another 20—a complete waste of time. I eventually flipped my top case fans to exhaust and locked the VRM fan speed at 2000 RPM to force some air over the modules. In a CPU-Z stress test, VRM temps stayed between 82-88℃ and the clock jitter dropped to 0.1 GHz. The high fan speed caused some annoying case resonance at first, but I fixed that with some silicone dampening pads. CPU temps stayed at 75-82℃. Used the BIOS export tool to back up this config so I don't have to do it again.
