CptT95
Couldn't get that setup stable again, might have been heatsoak and being on the edge already lol
I need to get that third radiator and some fittings and extra tubing, so I can redo my loop and add my second pump/res
This should drop temps down overall and decrease time needed to reach equilibrium at idle
I've found that PCB heatsoak/settings that ran stable resulting in lower scores happens after around 4-5 runs if I'm really pushing the card, I would assume that's what it is, heatsoak, and the only way to really alleviate that would be to either power the system down & let it cool off for like 20 minutes, or set to default/stock and let it cool down longer.
Leaving the voltages at their 'pushing it' benchmark settings makes the card run warm continuously, especially if you have the 'real' LN2 BIOS on the card, because then the memory is running full clocks (and voltage) at all times. That's a significant heat increase and increase to the amount of heat the PCB is "heatsoaking" because of the memory chips being double-stacked on either side of the PCB in the same place (and the fact that the Memory chips are flip-chip, meaning the 'core' of the memory chip is closest to the PCB, not the cooling elements).
Even if you lower voltages to stock between runs, heatsoak will still slow ya down after a while.
I'm looking forward to my next session, whenever that is, aiming to get closer to the 16K mark if I can manage it.