Dealing with clock speed drops on Zotac RTX 5060 Ti 16GB?
The screen was ripping apart during intense urban combat. My monitoring software showed the core clock bouncing wildly between 1800-2100MHz, while temps sat around 72-76℃. I tried forcing V-Sync, but that was a disaster—input lag shot up past 45ms and the mouse felt like it was moving through mud. I decided to attack the power limit instead, bumping the ceiling from 160W up to 185-190W and locking the fans at a constant 75%. Checking the sensors, the core finally stabilized around 2450MHz, and frame time variance dropped from 8.5-15.2ms to a tight 6.1-7.8ms. To be honest, my initial attempt at undervolting caused constant driver resets. After five crashes and a full reset to defaults, I finally hit this sweet spot. The fans sound like a vacuum cleaner under load, but the tearing is completely gone. I compared the frame distribution curves in MSI Afterburner, and the core no longer throttles, keeping temps stable at 72-76℃.
