How to stop i7-14700KF from throttling in Resident Evil 9?
It's honestly ridiculous that I'm more worried about my CPU melting than the monsters in a horror game. Every time a huge mob appears, my fans start screaming like a jet engine. The default PL1 power limits on the i7-14700KF are way too high, causing core temps to rocket from 60℃ to 95-102℃ in a single second, which tanked my clocks from 5.6GHz down to 3.8GHz. I tried cranking all fans to 100% constant speed, but the noise was unbearable and the temps still hovered around 90℃—that was a total joke of a solution. I ended up redefining the PWM step curve, setting 80% fan speed at 75℃, and capping the PL2 limit at 253W. On the monitor, peak temps stayed locked between 82-88℃ and the clock fluctuations narrowed to 4.8-5.4GHz. Early on, I had a few crashes at the loading screen because the voltage offset was too low, but adding 0.03V to the Vcore fixed it. Core temps are now stable at 75-82℃. Logged all the data through the temp monitor successfully.