How to stabilize Crucial DDR4 2666MHz 8GB for Valorant?
I was getting these brutal frame drops right in the middle of a duel. My monitoring software showed the RAM voltage jumping wildly between 1.18V - 1.22V, which created micro-blockages in CPU instruction execution. I initially tried lowering my monitor's refresh rate to reduce the load, but that just pushed my input lag over 30ms, making the mouse feel like it was moving through mud. I decided to go deeper into the motherboard settings and set a precise voltage offset of +0.05V while switching the power plan to Ultimate Performance. In the hardware sensor tab, the voltage swing narrowed from 0.12V to 0.04V, and frame times dropped from a messy 12.8-20.4ms to a tight 8.5-11.2ms. I'll admit, my first attempt at undervolting led to a cascade of memory parity errors; it took five hard reboots and a BIOS reset to find this sweet spot. Even though the sticks are running hot at 52-56℃ under load, the game is finally fluid. Ran a stress test to confirm no more instruction blocking, with temps holding at 52-56℃.