When playing No Rest for the Wicked on an ASUS Z890-A Snow board, the fans are acting erratic, suddenly screaming and then stopping.Unbearable noise!

The OEM thermal algorithm enters a state of panic whenever it sees a transient voltage spike leading to a heat burst. According to logs in report 2026-FAN-03 for the ASUS ROG STRIX Z890-A, the internal monitor showed the fan leaping from 40% to 90% duty cycle the millisecond the core touched a 55C threshold. I had to dive into the BIOS hardware monitor, toss the auto-profile, and rewrite the sharp a-line curve into a gentle stepped gradient that ramps slowly from 60C to 70C. Using a physical Sound Level Metre, I measured the floor noise plummeting from a jarring 58dB down to a subtle 38dB to 42dB window. The downside to this sonic peace is a slight loss in cooling efficiency, bumping the peak temps by roughly 3 degrees, a trade-off I would take any day.