Optimizing power delivery for ROG STRIX Z890-A in Night City?
It's honestly ridiculous that a top-tier Strix board would let me drop to 40 FPS in Night City; it felt like a total joke. The VRM module on the ASUS ROG STRIX Z890-A was seeing voltage swings between 1.15-1.22V during power spikes, which triggered the CPU's thermal throttling. I tried cranking the graphics settings to the max, but that just made the drops worse—a total rookie mistake. I headed into the BIOS, switched the Load-Line Calibration from Auto to L3, and bumped the CPU core voltage to 1.35V to stabilize the current. My monitoring tools now show the core frequency locked at around 5.4GHz without those annoying dips. I did hit a boot failure after the first LLC tweak, but adding 0.02V to the memory voltage fixed it. VRM temps are sitting between 62-68℃, which is great. I've exported all the voltage logs for reference, and my fans are humming along steadily at 1200-1400RPM.
