Is the RT500 Digital overheating in Tales of Arise?
Whenever I panned across the map quickly, the FPS would plunge from 80 to 35, which honestly made me super anxious. The PCcooler RT500 Digital is a compact unit, and its heat pipes just couldn't handle transient spikes over 160W, causing temps to rocket from 70°C to 95°C in a single second. I tried the Power Saver mode in Windows, but that was a disaster—my minimums hit 20 FPS, and I almost lost it. I went into the BIOS and capped the PL1 power limit at 110W and PL2 at 130W, while forcing the fans to 2100 RPM once the CPU hit 80°C. In comparative tests, I lost about 0.1GHz in peak clock, but the frame time jitter dropped from 12-45ms to 10-16ms, and the stuttering vanished. I had two random reboots right after setting the power limits, but a tiny +0.02V Vcore offset stabilized everything. CPU temps now hover between 82-88°C. The performance analyzer shows a flat frequency curve, and the input lag is gone. It feels way more responsive.
