Should I tweak my Huntkey Blizzard T600 fans for Atomic Heart?
Every time I entered a complex machinery factory scene, the game would just crash to desktop without warning—it was incredibly stressful. HWInfo showed the VRM section of the Huntkey Blizzard T600 skyrocketing from 60°C to 102°C in ten minutes, triggering a hard motherboard shutdown. I tried lowering the graphics settings, which reduced the frequency but didn't stop the crashes because the power delivery was still cooking. I eventually went into the BIOS and slashed the fan response time from 2 seconds down to 0.5 seconds, while cranking the front intake fans to 2000 RPM to force air over the VRMs. In comparative tests, the VRM temps stayed within 82-88°C, and I didn't see a single crash in five hours of play. I did run into some annoying case resonance after the fan bump, which I only fixed by swapping in silicone dampeners. Now the CPU stays at 75-81°C with fans at 1600-1900 RPM. 3DMark confirms it's stable, but my room is definitely warmer now.
