Fixing CPU throttling on DeepCool AK500 ARGB in Warhammer III
This cooler's limit was seriously testing my patience. In massive charge scenes, I'd experience a brutal dive from 60 FPS to 15 FPS in about three seconds. After an hour of gaming, the AK500 ARGB just hit total thermal saturation, with core temps pinned at 95℃ and clocks crashing from 4.8 GHz to 3.0 GHz. It was honestly pathetic. I tried limiting the CPU TDP to 65W in software, but the calculation speed slowed down so much that I lost 20 FPS overall—that's not a solution, that's just handicapping the PC. I ended up rigging a 120mm intake fan at the bottom of the case to feed cold air directly into the fins. In Cinebench, my multi-core score climbed from 14,000 back up to 16,800, with peaks held at 82-86℃. I actually bumped the RAM gold fingers while installing the fan, which caused a boot failure, but a quick reseat fixed it. CPU now runs at 78-84℃. Exported all the stability data via system analysis tools.
