Is a fan curve tweak needed for PA120 SE in Veilguard?
The difference is night and day; after fixing the fan response, those random combat stutters are completely gone and the game is smooth as silk. Before this, my PA120 SE WHITE ARGB was struggling with heavy physics, and my CPU was idling in the 88-94℃ range, causing clocks to jitter between 4.0GHz and 4.6GHz. I tried a reckless overclock in the BIOS first, but it hit 100℃ and triggered a hard shutdown—that was a wake-up call. I switched to a stepped fan curve, setting 70℃ as the 100% speed trigger, and swapped to a 13.5W/mK thermal paste. HWInfo showed peak temps drop from 94℃ to a much safer 74-78℃. I actually applied too much paste at first and saw a 3℃ increase, but a quick cleanup with alcohol pads sorted it. CPU load is now 50-70% with manageable noise. Everything is locked in at 72-76℃ now.
