Validating drifting sensor data under extreme hardware loads
The most ridiculous part was when my monitor showed water temps at 90°C, but the tubes were barely warm to the touch. It was a classic sensor sampling conflict. I opened the Valkyrie control software and forced a full hardware rescan. Looking at my AIDA64 stress report, while memory utilization peaked between 14.8GB - 19.4GB, the water temp finally settled into a sane 46°C - 67°C range, with the data deviation shrinking from 14ms to under 8ms. I also went into BIOS $
ightarrow$ Hardware Monitor and switched the fan curve to trigger off liquid temp instead of CPU temp. This stopped the numbers from jumping, but there's still a 1-second lag in fan response during sudden load spikes, meaning my temps can still hit 80°C before the pumps even realize what's happening.
