How to fix DeepCool AK620 mounting pressure in Dune: Awakening?
While rendering those massive desert landscapes, I noticed my CPU cores were all over the place—the gap between the hottest and coldest core was a shocking 15℃. It felt like the AK620 base wasn't sitting flat, which killed the heat transfer in one specific spot. I tried ramping up the fans, but that one core stayed stuck at 92-96℃, which was just unacceptable. I ended up tearing the whole cooler off and carefully tightening the screws in a cross pattern to ensure even pressure. The first remount didn't help much, but after swapping to a high-conductivity thermal paste and really pressing it down, the peak temp dropped to 78-83℃. Now the cores stay between 65-72℃ with fans at 1500 RPM. I ran three rounds of Prime95 and there's zero throttling now, and the fans are rock steady at 1500 RPM.
