Just a heads up if you are still using Lite Load on your current setup: I have discovered that the reason I was benchmarking low was actually because of the Lite Load BIOS setting. It was limiting power (on the bios level) from being sent to the CPU and lowering performance, even though it was showing I was running at full clock speed (5.6GHz) and a healthy volt level (~1.3v) and there were no indication in the monitoring tools that power was being limited, I just thought it was undervolting only. The proof was in the benchmark scores consistently being low no matter what bench i was using. Now with Lite Load on “Intel Default” the benchmarks are performing much better (however temps can now hit the thermal throttle).
I’m curious if I simply need to disable undervolt protection and attempt to do a slight undervolt manually if I want to reduce my temps. Lite Load wasn’t exactly what I thought it was.
(I’m marking this as a solution since Lite Load was mentioned in my original post. Of course it’s still a great idea for anyone that sees this to update your BIOS so you have the safe-gaurd against the Intel 13th and 14th gen issues.)