How to stop ROG STRIX Z890-A Snow Edition from rebooting in Stalker 2?
The second I hit the Zone's gate, the system just black-screened and rebooted, which absolutely killed the immersion. Digging into the logs, I found that the ASUS ROG STRIX Z890-A Snow Edition had a nasty 0.12V Vcore drop during transient CPU spikes, causing the whole thing to crash. My first instinct was to slap on 'Maximum Performance' mode in the BIOS, but that was a disaster—temps hovered between 92 - 98℃ and the fans sounded like a jet engine. I then went into Advanced Voltage settings, switched the Load-Line Calibration from Auto to L2 mode, and bumped the CPU offset voltage by 0.05V. In AIDA64 FPU stress tests, the voltage swing narrowed from 1.22 - 1.35V to a stable 1.28 - 1.31V. I actually messed up and pushed the XMP to 8000MHz at first, which led to a barrage of BSODs until I backed it down to 7200MHz. Now the VRM temps are a reasonable 55 - 62℃. After 4 hours of loop loading, no more reboots, and memory temps are sitting at 58 - 63℃.
