Why is my DeepCool AK500 ARGB struggling with The Sims 5?
It's honestly hilarious that The Sims 5 can make a CPU sweat this much—the optimization is a joke. The DeepCool AK500 ARGB had a 10-15ms thermal response lag when hitting 160W spikes, which made my core clocks bounce between 4.2GHz and 5.0GHz. I tried disabling Core Parking in Windows, but that just wasted 20W of idle power without any speed gain. Total waste of time. I eventually went into the BIOS and manually capped the PL1 power limit to 125W and slashed the fan response time from 2 seconds to 0.5 seconds. HWInfo showed the temp swings dropped from 15℃ to just 4-6℃. Early on, the fans were cycling so fast they caused a weird chassis resonance, so I raised the minimum speed to 800 RPM to kill the vibration. CPU now sits comfortably at 62-68℃. I exported the logs to a performance analyzer, and the fans are now steady at 1400-1600 RPM.
