Tuning power targets for Thermalright PA120 SE ARGB in Lost Ark
It was absolutely ridiculous—this dual-tower cooler was letting my core temps hit 92-96℃ during high-compute raids, triggering thermal throttling and tanking my clocks. I tried capping the CPU power in software, but that just doubled my loading times and only dropped the temp by 1℃. What a waste of time. I realized my case airflow had a dead zone creating a heat vortex, so I slapped in a small spot fan blowing directly onto the fins, locked at 2000 RPM. Suddenly, the sensors showed temps dropping to 78-82℃, and frame times shrank from 22.1-31.4ms to 16.2-19.8ms. I actually spent an hour reapplying thermal paste three times thinking it was a bad mount, but it was just a lack of static pressure. The cooler is decent, but it needs high pressure to actually perform. I logged everything in a performance analyzer, and the fans are now humming steadily at 1400-1600RPM.
