Managing thermal pressure for Jonsbo CR-1400 ARGB in Spider-Man 2
This cooler is basically a paperweight under extreme loads. Core temps hit a ridiculous 96°C - 99°C, and my clock speed plummeted from 4.8 GHz to 3.0 GHz instantly. I tried enabling power-saving mode in Windows, but my FPS got halved—just a fragmented attempt that wasted my afternoon. I went into the BIOS and set a negative CPU core voltage offset of -0.050V. In the load monitor, I saw power draw drop from 140W to 115W. The system actually rebooted twice when I first tried undervolting, and I only got it stable after tweaking the Load-Line Calibration (LLC) parameters. Temps finally backed off to 82°C - 86°C. It's still warm, but at least I'm not throttling every five seconds. Tinkering on the edge of hardware stability is a bit of a gamble, but it worked, and my case isn't burning my hand anymore. I exported all the temp curves from the stress test logs.
