Audio popping issue

[minopoki]

Your processor is so hot it is throttling itself to prevent damage. Cool it off.

Maybe that's it, it's throttling more after the overclock, that's why things seem worse.
I don't think there's much I can do... I could try new coolers, it would probably make it better, but not sure it would be enough...
I use a two fan Corsair water cooling, reapplied thermal paste about 1.5 year ago, could do it again, but I don't think temperatures have changed much from then. My guess is my coolers are too old (almost 7 years now, and I heard watercoolers wear out faster), but I'm not sure I would want to invest money in new expensive cooling hardware just for the sake of FFXIV. I'd rather save it to when I upgrade my whole system in the future...

Besides of anything, game still played fine before 6.0, other games are still fine, so it's still up to SE to fix it, it really seems I can't do much more on my side. Thanks for the suggestions anyway.

EDIT: Overclocking might still have good results to other people though. It's really looks an interesting suggestion for those who are secure about messing with BIOS options.

[XenophineEX]

Maybe that's it, it's throttling more after the overclock, that's why things seem worse.
I don't think there's much I can do... I could try new coolers, it would probably make it better, but not sure it would be enough...
I use a two fan Corsair water cooling, reapplied thermal paste about 1.5 year ago, could do it again, but I don't think temperatures have changed much from then. My guess is my coolers are too old (almost 7 years now, and I heard watercoolers wear out faster), but I'm not sure I would want to invest money in new expensive cooling hardware just for the sake of FFXIV. I'd rather save it to when I upgrade my whole system in the future...

Besides of anything, game still played fine before 6.0, other games are still fine, so it's still up to SE to fix it, it really seems I can't do much more on my side. Thanks for the suggestions anyway.

I posted mine, it is cheap, 30 bucks, just uses fans on a radiator system. If the fans burn out you can just buy new ones. The radiator itself will never go bad.

I've never used a water cooling system but it seems kind of redundant to cycle hot water through a system.... Goal is to get the heat away from the processor as fast as it makes it... saturating it with high temperature flow... well the laws of thermo dynamics take over. Eventually the water system gets as hot as the heat coming off the processor. Then you achieve... what you have going.

In my case my pc has open access to an abundance of air all cooler than the source, so no matter how long those fans blow, unless it gets to 90 degrees in here thermodynamics takes over, and the pc will always have a open channel to distribute heat. During winter months, I rarely need to run the heat if my pc is on. (this is the same reason server rooms are kept really cold)

Another way to think about it, if you had your stove burner turned on (electric) and created a half inch gap between it and the frying pan, and I used air flow blowing through that and you used water, which do you think would result in the pan getting hotter?

[minopoki]

I posted mine, it is cheap, 30 bucks, just uses fans on a radiator system. If the fans burn out you can just buy new ones. The radiator itself will never go bad.

I couldn't find that model being sold in my country, but this other one seems similar, and it's dual fan: https://www.coolermaster.com/catalog...212-led-turbo/
It's not exactly cheap around here, but I'll give it a thought, especially for the future, thanks for the suggestion.

[XenophineEX]

I couldn't find that model being sold in my country, but this other one seems similar, and it's dual fan: https://www.coolermaster.com/catalog...212-led-turbo/
It's not exactly cheap around here, but I'll give it a thought, especially for the future, thanks for the suggestion.

ouu a fancy one, I never did go for looks on it, just functionality haha. But that does look to fit your needs. You will want to get 2 4 pin fans, and make sure you have a connector to connect the second to the first so they are synced. Unless your board has 2 4 pin fan connectors (mine didn't). The 4th pin is for regulating fan speed automatically.

You may also want to measure where your ram slots are in relation to the processor, it is a very big heat sync.

Yeah looking at the stock fans they are 1600 rpm, you want 2k - 2.4k rpm. cooler master also sells those. But the stock fans make for good backups/ rear chassis fans.

You want those fans blowing as hard as you can get them to to cool that processor off.

The installation for the fans is easy btw, just attach the slip on brackets via fan screws to the 4 corners of the fan plug it in and slip it over the radiator.