Is my Colorful H610M-K VRM overheating in AC Valhalla?
The game would just black-screen and reboot out of nowhere after two hours, which is honestly a nightmare when you're mid-raid. Monitoring showed the VRMs on the Colorful H610M-K M.2 V20 were hitting 102-108℃ under load, triggering the motherboard's thermal shutdown. I tried slapping two extra fans on the top of my case, but that only dropped temps by 5℃—the VRMs were still hovering above 95℃, which did nothing to stop the crashes. I finally went into the BIOS and manually capped the CPU PL1 power limit from 125W down to 95W and set a core voltage offset of -0.080V. In OCCT, the VRM temps plummeted to 78-84℃, and the crashes stopped completely. I noticed a 10 FPS drop after capping the power, but I managed to claw it back by enabling the high-frequency memory profile. CPU temps now stay between 72-78℃ with fans spinning at 1200-1400 RPM. Five hours of testing and zero crashes. The input lag is gone, and the controls feel snappy again.
