Is the Noctua NH-D15 G2 causing clock instability in GTA VI?
When rendering high-density NPC crowds, my CPU clocks were bouncing wildly between 3.2-5.1GHz. It's incredibly distracting when you're pushing max settings. Even though the Noctua is a beast, the motherboard's auto-voltage logic was causing these unnecessary spikes. I tried enabling auto-overclocking, but that just led to random BSODs during map loads—a truly exhausting trial-and-error process. I eventually went into the BIOS and manually set the core voltage to a stable 1.32V, which kept the CPU between 62-68°C. The first voltage tweak was still a bit wonky under full load until I disabled all CPU power-saving states and locked it to High Performance mode. Now the VRMs stay at 50-55°C and the fan noise is barely audible. Comparing the frame intervals, I managed to squeeze them from 15ms down to 10ms. The game finally feels responsive and snappy under my fingertips.
