Is power management the cause of FPS drops on Huntkey Blizzard T600?
It's absolutely ridiculous—in a simple teamfight, my FPS would plummet from 200 down to 80. I couldn't wrap my head around it until I noticed the 12V rail on the Huntkey Blizzard T600 Snow was dipping by 0.2V when the CPU boosted, triggering the motherboard's throttling mechanism. I tried killing all background apps, but the drops stayed, so I stopped wasting time with that. I went into the Advanced Power Settings, locked the minimum processor state to 100%, and disabled EIST in the BIOS. Looking at the frame time graphs, the jagged lines finally flattened out, and frame generation is now a steady 4-6ms. Disabling the power saving did bump my idle power draw by about 20W, but I offset that by re-mapping my fan curves. CPU temps are sitting between 55-62℃, and the game feels incredibly responsive again. I used a system snapshot tool to save this config so I don't have to do this again.
