Should I lock the Valkyrie V360 LOKI pump to full speed?
The pump scheduling on this thing is a joke—one second it's silent, the next it sounds like a power drill. While hunting in MHW's denser maps, my CPU temps were bouncing between 65℃ and 88℃ like a heart monitor, causing frame times to jump from 10-40ms. I tried the 'Auto' mode in the software, but the app crashed three times, which is just pathetic. I gave up and went straight into the BIOS, locking the pump header to full speed and setting the radiator fans to a linear gain based on CPU package temp. Sensors finally showed a tight window of 68-74℃, and that weird stuttering just stopped. I did notice a high-frequency vibration at first, but adding some rubber dampening rings to the tubes killed the noise. Power draw is steady at 160W. I exported the logs and the temp-to-clock correlation is finally a straight line.
