How to stop thermal throttling on Zotac RTX 5060 Ti 16G?
This card was basically acting up every time Kratos used a special move; the temps climbed faster than a health bar drops. During heavy combat, the core hit 88℃, and the clock speed plummeted from 2.5 GHz to 1.8 GHz, making the game look like a slideshow. I tried leaving the side panel of my case open, but that only dropped the temp by 3℃ and just sucked in a ton of dust—totally useless. I finally went into the control software and set a custom fan curve to hit 80% speed at 70℃, and I capped the power limit at 90%. Monitoring with RivaTuner, my 1% lows jumped from 35 FPS back up to 58-64 FPS, and that 'tugged' feeling is finally gone. The first time I cranked the fans, it sounded like a vacuum cleaner, so I had to tweak the 85℃+ threshold to 95% to find a balance between noise and heat. The GPU now stays between 72-78℃ with fans at 2100 RPM. I exported the logs and confirmed frame times are now stable at 5.1-6.4ms.
