Why is my Soyo SY-King Dragon H510M stuttering in Alan Wake 2?
Walking through those creepy forests, my FPS was bouncing randomly between 40 - 60, and that inconsistency made me really worry about this board's compatibility. The memory controller on the Soyo SY-King Dragon H510M was throwing 3 - 6% checksum errors with the default XMP profile when handling the new game's instruction sets. I tried dropping the RAM frequency to 2666MHz; the spikes stopped, but my minimums tanked from 35 FPS to 28 FPS—a trade-off I couldn't accept. I switched to a manual voltage strategy, bumping the RAM from 1.2V to 1.35V and relaxing the CL from 16 to 18 for stability. Frame time monitoring showed the jitter shrink from 12 - 30ms to a much tighter 8 - 15ms. I did have two random reboots after the first voltage bump, but loosening the tRAS by 4 units finally nailed it. RAM temps are 42 - 48℃ and the board's hot spots are 55 - 62℃. MemTest86 passed 4 full cycles with zero errors.
