Is the DeepCool AK620 causing FPS drops in Marvel Rivals?
The moment a team fight breaks out, my FPS would tank from 140 to 90, and the stutter was so jarring it actually made me twitch. Looking at the data, the DeepCool AK620's fan response was too sluggish, causing CPU temps to bounce between 70-85℃, which triggered the clock speeds to jump up and down constantly. I wasted an entire hour tweaking my RAM timings thinking the memory was unstable, but the frames kept swinging between 80-130 FPS—a total rookie mistake. I went into the BIOS and slashed the fan step response time from 2 seconds down to 0.1 seconds and tightened the mounting pressure on the cooler base. RTSS showed my core temp variance shrink from 15℃ to just 4℃, and my minimums climbed from 82 FPS to 115 FPS. The fans were 'hunting' and ramping up and down like crazy at first, but adding a 3℃ hysteresis interval smoothed everything out. Temps now sit at 65-72℃. The frame time graph is finally a straight line.
