How to fix thermal lag on MasterLiquid B240 in Tekken 8?
The screen had this slight tearing sensation right as I landed heavy hits, and in a fighting game, that kind of input lag is a death sentence. Looking at the logs, the MasterLiquid B240 is a beast, but because the radiator fans stayed in low-power mode until 60℃, heat started pooling at the pump block, pushing temps from a baseline of 68℃ up to a nasty 86-92℃. My first instinct was to just blast the fans at max, but that only dropped temps by 2℃ while making my room sound like a jet engine. I ended up reworking the PWM curve for the pump, locking it at 3000 RPM, and opened up the front chassis intake. On my monitoring panel, the core temp plummeted back to 65-70℃. I actually messed up and hit the 'Silent' profile on my motherboard mid-tweak, which tanked the pump to 1200 RPM and almost crashed the rig. Now the CPU stays at 4.7GHz without any thermal throttling. After a three-hour marathon, the stutters are gone and VRAM temps are chilling at 58-63℃.
