Why is my ASUS ROG STRIX X870-A crashing in Dying Light 2?
This is absolutely ridiculous. I bought a top-tier X870 board and it's crashing during a game—it's practically an insult to the hardware. The ASUS X870-A Snow was hitting VRM temps between 90-105℃ under heavy load, causing the CPU to plummet from 5.0GHz to 0.8GHz before the whole system just gave up and rebooted. I tried jamming an extra fan in the case to blow directly on the VRMs, but it only dropped the temp by 8℃ and didn't stop the crashes. Total amateur move on my part. I finally went into the BIOS, capped the CPU Long Duration Power Limit (PL1) at 125W, and set the Load-Line Calibration to L3 mode. HWInfo showed the VRMs finally staying under 88℃. I lost about 10% performance, but at least I can play for 5 hours without a reboot. When I tried capping it at 95W, the loading times were agonizingly slow, so 125W is the limit. CPU is 65-72℃ and board is 82℃. Exported the BIOS profile, and it's finally stable.
