Should I limit power for Gainward RTX 5070 Ti in Orion?
Every time I entered a neon-heavy district, my screen would go black for three seconds and the driver would reset—it was honestly driving me insane. The Gainward RTX 5070 Ti Storm OC was hitting transient power spikes between 450W-520W, which triggered a micro-second protection trip on my 12VHPWR connector. I tried switching to a low-power mode in the software first, but performance tanked by 25% and the stutters still happened, which was a total waste of time. I eventually used MSI Afterburner to flatten the voltage curve, dropping the 1.05V point down to 0.98V and capping the power limit at 320W. In a 3DMark stress test, I ran 20 loops without a single error, with core temps staying between 65-71℃. I did have a moment of panic when I pushed the voltage too low and got a BSOD during a scene transition, but adding 0.03V back in fixed it. Fans stayed between 1600-1900 RPM, and the noise was barely noticeable. Now the driver doesn't reset, and the input response feels much tighter, although I lost a tiny bit of peak boost clock.
