How to quantify jagged performance spikes using 3DMark Logs?
I spent way too long obsessing over overclocking, but my 3DMark curves looked like a heart attack. I stopped chasing a single number and exported a full 10-minute log. On Win11 24H2, I saw full-load CPU temps oscillating between 73°C - 82°C and frame times jumping frantically from 18ms - 32ms. By comparing the 3DMark CPU score against GPU utilization, it became clear the bottleneck was memory latency, not clock speed. I went into BIOS $
ightarrow$ Memory Settings and forced the UCLK mode to 1:1 instead of Auto. This stabilized my baseline at 58fps - 63fps. That said, in base areas with too many Pal structures, I still get instant frame drops; that's just a memory leak in the game engine, and no amount of hardware tuning can totally kill that bug.
