Is the i5 14600KF hitting a power wall in Farming Simulator 25?
Whenever the game handles complex farm logic, my frame rate would plummet from 110 FPS down to 52 FPS, and that sudden choppiness felt absolutely terrible. Looking back at my settings, I had the motherboard's auto-overclock enabled, which caused the i5 14600KF to spike between 180-220W, triggering the overcurrent protection and forcing a massive clock drop. My first instinct was to switch the Windows power plan to 'Balanced,' but that was a disaster—it didn't stabilize the frames and actually cost me another 15 FPS on average. Feeling pretty defeated, I dove into the BIOS and manually locked PL1 and PL2 power limits at 180W, while setting a voltage offset of -0.05V. In Cinebench R23, my multi-core score stabilized at 24,200 (up from 23,500), and frame times tightened from a messy 12-25ms to a solid 8-11ms. I did hit two BSODs during the first boot after locking the power, but a slight Vcore bump to 1.28V sorted it out. The CPU now runs between 68-75℃ with fans at 1200 RPM. Frequency monitors show zero throttling now, but the VRMs still run a bit toasty.