Fixing power delivery issues on ASUS TUF B760M-PLUS D4?
My ride through the heartlands was smooth for about thirty minutes, then suddenly it turned into a slideshow, especially when entering Saint Denis. I dug into the logs and found the VRMs on my ASUS TUF B760M-PLUS WIFI D4 were hitting 102-108℃ under the 4K MOD load, triggering a massive thermal throttle that tanked my CPU from 5.2GHz down to 3.1GHz. I tried cranking the BIOS fans to max, but since the heatsinks are so small, the core was still hovering around 95℃—totally useless. I had to get aggressive and manually cap the PL1 power limit to 125W and shifted the VRM fan curve to kick in at 50℃. In CPU-Z stress tests, the clock fluctuation shrunk from 1.2GHz to just 0.1GHz, keeping me steady at 60-65 FPS. I did lose about 5% single-core punch initially, but I clawed that back by setting a -0.05V voltage offset. VRMs now stay between 82-88℃. The frequency charts confirm the throttling is gone.