After the challenge, my 1070 will have definitly deserved the Thermal pads from EVGA, learnt about the ACX 3.0 thermals yesterday. Not too worried as for mine since i have 2 intake, both, pushing air from Low to high, ordering a Tube of MX4 soon.
Yeah , didnt thought about how much of an inpact Unplugging my monitor from the GPU would have affected my PPD that much. definitly should have did a quick day test before.