On a new system:
#1 Chipset drivers directly from Intel/AMD.
#2 GPU drivers directly from Nvidia/AMD/Intel.
#3 Sound, Network, and Storage drivers directly from source if possible, otherwise motherboard website.
#4 Let Windows Update fill in the...
Modern processors are designed to run as fast as they can for whatever given load thrown at them. AMD will floor it until 95°C, but those are generally not real world loads. Compiling or photo/video editing and multi-threaded apps will get up...
They are all good deals when compared to Noctua, as long as they can handle the heat load. I like Thermalright as a company but dang they have a lot of very similar designs in the same relative space...
Steam uses a ton of CPU power to download and decompress the game updates. That I checked you couldn't disable updates entirely but I set my games to update at 5am and I just leave my client closed when I am not using it then update manually.
Playing Doom Eternal Ancient Gods 1 Holt Slayer Gate (getting my ass kicked [H]ard), the area prior to the red box is me playing on a 7950x RTX4070OC, I found it interesting when I shut the game down the fans kicking up to find steam update...