Assassin's Creed Shadows stutters during city stealth; it feels like VRM overheating triggers throttling. Should I refine the voltage curve and cap power limits to optimize performance?

Tearing into the data, the culprits were clear: transient current spikes were pushing the VRMs to the brink, with [HWinfo64 monitoring temperatures between 95℃ - 102℃]. The system was essentially panicking and throttling hard. I tried cranking the chassis fans to max, which was a total joke. Instead, I dived into the BIOS precision voltage offset and set a -0.050V offset, capping the PPT within preset limits to avoid thermal runaway. The payoff was massive; [3DMark CPU scores climbed up to 19100 - 19400], and complementary tests with [Cinebench R23 showed a stable range between 17500 - 18200]. There is a catch, though—rare, millisecond stutters appear during crazy CPU spikes, a direct side effect of aggressive undervolting. I spent way too much time chasing benchmark ghosts before realizing that sustainable thermal headroom beats peak clocks every time. As long as you are not a benchmark addict, this is the gold standard. I've stopped caring about the top-end numbers now that the heat is gone and the game doesn't feel like a stuttering mess anymore.