How to stop Colorful B760M-D PRO V20 from throttling?
Having your FPS plummet from 144 to 40 in the middle of a fight is absolutely brutal, especially during those particle-heavy effect bursts. I checked HWInfo and the VRM on the Colorful B760M-D PRO V20 was hitting 102℃, which triggered a massive frequency throttle. My first instinct was to enable 'Ultimate Performance' in Windows, but that just pushed the temps higher and made the throttling even worse—total opposite of what I wanted. I ended up rigging a small fan to blow directly onto the motherboard's power delivery area and went into the BIOS to cap the CPU power limit at 125W. The results were instant: VRM temps crashed from 102℃ down to 75℃ - 81℃, and frame time variance stayed within 12ms - 18ms. I did notice that capping the power slowed down the initial game load, but I balanced that out by pushing my RAM from 3200MHz to 3600MHz. CPU cores are now stable at 68℃ - 75℃. After a 3-hour stress test, there are zero drops. Power delivery is finally sorted.
