Calibrating cooling for Galax H310M in Far Cry 7
While sneaking up on an enemy camp, my CPU temp spiked to 92℃ in about 15 seconds. I seriously wondered if the Galax H310M was trying to grill my components. These random thermal throttles are a total nightmare for a stealth game. I first tried setting the fans to Full Speed in the BIOS, but while the temp dropped by 4℃, the noise was like a jet engine taking off in my room—totally unbearable. I ended up ripping the cooler off, applying high-grade thermal paste, and manually setting the PWM curve to start at 55℃ and hit 100% at 80℃. In AIDA64 stress tests, the core temps dropped from 90-95℃ to a stable 72-78℃, and the FPS drops vanished. I actually messed up the first paste application by using too little, which left Core 1 about 7℃ hotter than the others until I redid it. Now the fans stay between 1600-1800 RPM and CPU load is around 65-75%. I exported all the thermal logs to make sure the cooling is actually holding up under pressure, with fans locked at 1600-1800RPM.