How to fix thermal saturation on Huntkey T620 in Atomic Heart?
The combat was flowing great until the screen would suddenly freeze for a split second, and that kind of inconsistency is a death sentence in a fast-paced game. Looking at the logs, the Huntkey Blizzard T620 Snow was hitting a wall with core contact temps hovering between 88 - 94℃, forcing the CPU to bounce violently between 4.2GHz and 3.6GHz. My first instinct was to kill every single background process in Task Manager, but while RAM usage dropped, the temps stayed sky-high—it was a total waste of time. I eventually ripped the cooler off and saw the factory paste had spread unevenly, leaving air gaps. I swapped it for a high-performance 12.5 W/mK paste using the five-dot method. In RTSS, core temps dropped by 12 - 15℃ under the same load, and clocks stabilized at 4.6 - 4.9GHz. I actually messed up the second install by unevenly tightening the brackets, which left one core 5℃ hotter than the others until I recalibrated the screw torque. Now the fans hum along at 1400 - 1600 RPM. Ran a Cinebench R23 loop and there's zero throttling, with memory temps staying between 58 - 63℃.
