My PA120 SE can't handle sudden heat spikes in Far Cry 7 jungle scenes, causing clock drops. Why?

My CPU was hitting 95℃, which felt like a joke given I have a dual-tower cooler. The Thermalright PA120 SE has a slight airflow dead zone between the two fans under extreme loads, leaving my core temps hovering between 88-96℃ and triggering aggressive thermal throttling. I tried cranking the fans to 100% in software, but it sounded like a damn power drill and only dropped the temp by 2℃—completely ridiculous. I decided to go physical: I ripped the cooler off, applied high-conductivity thermal paste, and set a non-linear stepped fan curve in the BIOS for the 75-85℃ range. HWInfo now shows temps stabilized between 72-78℃, and my clocks stopped swinging from 3.2-4.5GHz, staying steady at 4.2-4.4GHz. I actually over-tightened the brackets at first, which slightly warped the motherboard, until I loosened them a bit. Now the fans spin at 1200-1500 RPM, and the noise is actually bearable. Exported the thermal logs, and the cooling data is finally where it needs to be.