Is the Colorful H610M-K hitting a power wall in Dead Space 2?
Watching my frame rate bounce between 50 and 20 FPS like a heart monitor was pure anxiety, especially when fighting huge monsters. The Colorful H610M-K has almost no heatsinking on the VRMs, and temps were peaking between 90-105℃, which forced the CPU to throttle hard. I tried switching to the High Performance power plan in Windows, but that just pushed the CPU to 100℃ and triggered a full system reboot—a wake-up call that software fixes weren't enough. I jumped into the BIOS and bumped the PL1 power limit from 65W to 80W, then added a high-static pressure exhaust fan to the top of my case. Using HWInfo, I saw the CPU clocks stabilize at 3.0-3.3GHz instead of the erratic 2.2-3.4GHz range. The VRMs actually hit 110℃ for a moment after the tweak, so I had to slap some thermal pads on the inductors to bring them down to 85-90℃. CPU temps settled at 78-84℃. The stuttering is basically gone, though the VRMs are still running pretty hot.
