My Noctua NH-D15 G2 has poor air pressure in Stalker 2, causing heat soak. Should I change modes?

Absolutely mind-blowing! The moment I swapped the fan profile from Silent to Performance, my core temps plummeted by 8°C. The NH-D15 G2 is a massive piece of kit, but at default low RPMs, the air just dead-ends in the deep fins, leaving the CPU bouncing between 82-88°C. I initially tried ramping up the case intake, but while the ambient temp dropped, the core was still cooking—that's when I realized air pressure was the real bottleneck. I went into the BIOS, set both fans to a forced sync mode, pushed the ceiling to 1500 RPM, and slightly adjusted the clearance between the cooler and my RAM sticks to clean up the airflow. In Cinebench, multi-core temps leveled out at 74-79°C, and the in-game stuttering vanished. I did have a bit of a resonance rattle when I first cranked the speed, but adding some anti-vibration pads killed it completely. Now my random read/write performance is maxed out thanks to the stable temps. Monitoring confirms the pressure distribution is optimized, with fans steady at 1400-1600 RPM.