Optimizing Thermalright Peerless Assassin 120 SE ARGB cooling
It was ridiculous—this cooler let my CPU spike to 98℃, and the fans sounded like a jet engine taking off. While the PA120 SE's dual-tower design is usually great, in my cramped case, it just became a heat trap with cores bouncing between 92-98℃. I tried the 'amateur move' of ripping off the side panel, which dropped temps by 5℃ but let in a mountain of dust and didn't fix the noise. I eventually overhauled the airflow, bumped the front intake fans to 1200 RPM, and set a custom curve where fans hit 80% speed at 70℃. HWInfo shows full-load temps are finally pinned between 78-84℃, and the clocks aren't diving anymore. I actually messed up the first curve by setting it to full blast, which was deafening in the loading screens, so I had to implement a stepped ramp-up for sanity. VRM temps are now stable at 62-68℃. I've exported all the stress test logs to verify the fix.