Stabilizing i7-14700KF power delivery for Hollow Knight: Silksong?
It's a joke that a top-tier CPU crashes while running a 2D game; every time the effects peaked, I got a black screen and a reboot. The i7-14700KF was hitting 0.12V drops under transient loads, triggering a 0x124 hardware error. I tried capping the power to 125W via software, but that was useless—it didn't stop the reboots and my minimums dropped from 144 FPS to 80 FPS. I was livid. I finally went into the BIOS, locked the max turbo to 5.2GHz, and added a +0.05V Vcore offset. In an AIDA64 FPU stress test, it ran for 2 hours without a single hiccup, with voltage staying between 1.22-1.28V. I almost fried something early on when temps hit 100℃, but cranking the AIO fan curve to full speed saved me. CPU temps now sit at 75-82℃, and VRMs are at 70-78℃. I exported these stability parameters to a BIOS backup. Power config is finally sorted.
