How to stop CPU throttling with PA120 SE in No Rest?
Right in the middle of a fight, my CPU would spike to 92℃, and my FPS would tank from 120 to 60 instantly. It was so bad I almost swapped to a liquid cooler on the spot. The default fan curve on the Thermalright PA120 SE WHITE ARGB only hits 1200 RPM before 80℃, which is nowhere near enough for the sudden power bursts of a 14th Gen CPU. I tried 'Ultimate Performance' mode first, but that just pushed the power draw higher and hit the 100℃ thermal wall—a total fail. I went into the BIOS, switched fan control to Manual, and forced the 75℃ trigger to ramp up to 2100-2300 RPM. Looking at the monitoring panel, core temps stayed locked between 74-78℃ during combat, and frame times dropped from 15-30 ms to a steady 8-12 ms. I had some weird resonance noise at first due to low start-up voltage, but bumping the start voltage to 1.1V silenced it. Package power is stable at 125-140 Watts. Mode switched successfully.
