Should I lock clocks on my Manli Nebula RTX 5060?
Riding through Saint Denis was a mess; frames would suddenly tank from 75 down to 42, ruining the flow. Monitoring showed the Manli Nebula RTX 5060 8GB core clock was bouncing between 2100-2400MHz, clearly a result of mild thermal throttling. I tried lowering shadow quality, which gave me a measly 5 FPS boost but didn't stop the clock jumping—totally useless. I used a tuning tool to manually lock the core clock at 2250MHz and added a +15mV voltage offset to keep it stable. The frame time graph, which looked like an EKG before, finally flattened out to a steady 13-15ms. My first attempt at locking clocks pushed the temp to 82℃ and triggered a safety throttle, so I had to move the fan curve up by 5℃. Now it stays at 74-78℃ with power draw around 115-120W. 3DMark stress tests confirm the clock is now a straight line.
