How to stop the Thermalright PA140 from overheating in RE Village?
My core clocks were bouncing all over the place around 4.2GHz, and the game would hitch every three seconds. It felt incredibly sluggish. Looking back at the build, the PA140 mounting pressure was uneven, sending core temps skyrocketing to 95-98℃ and hitting the thermal wall hard. I tried undervolting in the BIOS to cut the heat, but while temps dropped by 5℃, my FPS plummeted from 110 to 85—totally unacceptable. I ended up ripping the cooler off, applying a high-performance 12.5W/mK thermal paste, and setting a custom fan curve to hit 100% at 75℃. In AIDA64 stress tests, the peak temp crashed from 98℃ down to a manageable 76-82℃, and clocks finally stabilized at 4.8GHz. The fans sounded like a helicopter taking off at first, but I tweaked the start-up RPM to 600 to find a balance. CPU load stays around 85% now with heat dissipating instantly. Monitoring software confirms the heat soak is gone, and RAM temps are chilling between 58-63℃.
