How to fix i7-14700KF power limit issues in The Sims 5?
When zooming out over the city, I noticed these annoying micro-stutters that got worse as my buildings grew. The i7-14700KF defaults to a PL1 limit of around 253W, which caused the clock speeds to jump erratically between 3.8-5.4GHz during heavy AI calculations. I tried enabling power-saving modes in the drivers, which lowered the temps but actually made the frame drops worse—a total fail. I went into the BIOS, manually bumped both PL1 and PL2 to 280W, and set a voltage offset of -0.05V. RTSS showed frame times tightening from 16-40ms down to 11-16ms. It's buttery smooth now. The only downside is that my AIO fans sounded like a jet engine until I rebuilt the fan curve from scratch. CPU temps are now holding at 75-82℃ with a flat frequency curve. Memory temps are staying around 58-63℃. It's a power-hungry setup, but it works.
