Why is my Noctua NH-D15 G2 struggling in Genshin Impact?
It's honestly ridiculous that an anime-style game with moderate rendering could push my CPU over 90°C. The Noctua NH-D15 G2's fins had a noticeable lag in heat transfer during sudden boosts, causing clocks to jitter between 3.4GHz and 4.9GHz, which wrecked my frame times. I tried dropping the graphics to low, but the game looked terrible and it felt like a waste of time. I went into the BIOS and set a stepped fan curve starting at 65°C and switched my case intakes to high-static pressure mode. In CPU-Z, temps settled between 78°C - 84°C, and the boost clock stayed above 4.6GHz without dipping. My first curve was too quiet and couldn't handle the spikes; I had to crank the fans to 100% above 85°C to find a balance. Noise is around 32-36 dB, and after exporting the mapping tables, the system is finally stable.
