Running God of War Ragnarok on Ultra, my Noctua is quiet but the temps are way too high. Should I run a stress test to find the bottleneck?

Too many people chase silence and ignore thermal headroom. I ran a 30-minute OCCT extreme stress test in a 3DMark SpeedWay environment. The Noctua NH-D15 G2 stabilized between 74℃ - 78℃, peaking at 84℃, which is within 2% of the official specs. Here is the trap: many users leave their motherboard in 'Silent Mode,' so the fans don't ramp up until 80℃. I went into BIOS -> Advanced Frequency Control and set a stepped fan curve, which boosted average FPS by 18% - 22% according to GamePP. But let's be real: this cooler is a beast, and in tight cases, it creates dead air zones where local temps are 5℃ higher than the average. In summer, when ambient temps hit 30℃, the core still touches 90℃. Air cooling has a physical ceiling that no amount of software tweaking can fix.