How to stop the NH-D15S from thermal throttling in Miles Morales?
While swinging through Manhattan, my CPU cores were bouncing between 82°C and 88°C, which forced the clock speeds to jitter violently between 4.8GHz and 5.2GHz. This instability manifested as these annoying micro-stutters every few seconds, totally killing the flow of the game. I initially tried enabling 'Ultimate Performance' mode in Windows, but that was a disaster—temps shot up to 92°C and triggered heavy thermal throttling. I had to dive into the BIOS and set a more aggressive fan curve, triggering 100% full speed once the CPU hits 75°C, while also applying a -0.05V core voltage offset. In AIDA64 stress tests, the peak temps stayed locked between 76°C and 81°C, and the frame time variance tightened from a messy 14-32ms down to a steady 8-12ms. I did notice some annoying resonance noise at low loads after the first tweak, so I had to dial the idle speed back to 800 RPM below 50°C to get some peace. Now the CPU holds its boost clock even at 90% load, and the frame delivery is rock steady at 8-12ms.
