Well I did some more tinkering in the BIOS and it’s running much cooler at 5.3. Still think I’m going to get a new thermal paste and may look into delidding. This chip can run pretty hot, and I’m on a 360 mm AIO. I got the load temps back to 67 with occasional peaks of 72. I’ve noticed with the lower voltage and temps, I’ve gained an average of 2-3 FPS consistently.
As for the Sydney test, I’ve tried cranking it up and using the orbx cityscape and flytampa YSSY. The weird thing is, even with the 3090 I’m crazy GPU limited. If I drop the game resolution to near nothing, being CPU limited brings the framerate to the mid 70s.