How to stop the i7-14700KF from overheating in Flight Sim?
The frame rate would suddenly tank from 60 FPS to 30 FPS the moment I throttled up for takeoff, and that kind of jarring stutter absolutely kills the immersion in a flight sim. Looking at my logs, the CPU cores were hovering between 98℃ - 102℃, triggering a brutal thermal throttle. My first instinct was to lower the render scale in-game, but while the FPS went up, the visuals became a blurry mess—a compromise I wasn't willing to make. I headed into the BIOS and capped the long-term power limit (PL1) at 180W, while also slapping an extra high-flow exhaust fan at the top of my chassis. Monitoring via RTSS, the clocks stayed stable between 4.2GHz - 4.8GHz and the drops stopped entirely. I did run into a couple of random reboots during idle after the power cap, but a slight Vcore tweak to 1.28V sorted it out. Temps now sit comfortably at 75℃ - 82℃ without hitting the wall. A Cinebench R23 loop confirmed the clocks are no longer diving, and the thermal issue is finally dead.
