Dealing with CPU overheating on DeepCool AK620 in KCD2?
It's honestly ridiculous that a 'realistic' sim can push my CPU to 98℃. I'd spend ten minutes walking through a town and the frames would just tank. The DeepCool AK620 WHITE ARGB should be enough on paper, but the stock paste had dried out over time, so the heat wasn't hitting the fins fast enough. I tried lowering the CPU power limits in BIOS, which dropped the temp by 10℃ but crashed my FPS from 60 to 42—totally unacceptable. I tore the cooler off and applied a 0.1mm layer of high-end liquid metal, then bumped my front case fans to 1800 RPM. In AIDA64 FPU tests, core temps plummeted from 95-98℃ down to 75-82℃, and the stuttering stopped. I actually had a slight temp delta at first because the screws weren't tightened evenly, but a quick recalibration fixed it. VRM temps are now 60-65℃. Backed up the config and it's rock solid.
