How to stop CPU throttling in Cyberpunk 2077 Overdrive mode?
Driving through the dense parts of Night City, I started getting these rhythmic micro-stutters that were super annoying. My ASUS B760M VRMs were spiking to 98-105℃, triggering the board's current protection and making my CPU clock jump wildly between 3.2GHz and 4.8GHz. I tried lowering the CPU power limits in the BIOS, but that just made my loading times 30% longer, which felt like a bad trade-off. I ended up mounting two 12cm side fans to blow directly onto the VRM heatsinks and set the chassis fans to full speed. In HWInfo, the VRM temps dropped immediately to 72-81℃, and the clocks stabilized at 4.6-4.9GHz. I had some annoying resonance noise after adding the fans, but some rubber gaskets fixed it. CPU temps are now sitting at 65-74℃. I verified the power delivery curve with real-time sensor data, and the fans are steady at 1400-1600 RPM.
