Can I stop the Jonsbo CR-1400E from overheating in Mass Effect?
It's honestly ridiculous—this tiny white cooler let my temps rocket to 85-89℃ during scene transitions, making my CPU clock look like an EKG monitor. I tried cranking the fan speed to max, but it just sounded like a jet engine and only dropped the temp by 2℃. Total waste of effort. I realized my case had a massive pocket of trapped hot air, so I adjusted the front intake fans to 1200-1400 RPM. Finally, the sensors showed the core temp dropping to 71-75℃, and my frame times shrank from a jittery 16.5-24.2ms to 12.1-13.8ms. I actually spent an hour repasting the CPU three times thinking the application was bad, but it was just a choked airflow issue. The heatsink is small, so it's barely passing, but it works if the air pressure is right. I logged everything in a performance analyzer, and the fans are now stable at 1400-1600 RPM.
