Quantifying Cooler Master thermal bottlenecks in stealth
In the extreme rapid-switch stealth scenarios defined in report 203, heat exchange latency was fluctuating between 1.4s - 2.3s. I ran CrystalDiskMark and saw 4K random reads jumping between 94MB/s - 129MB/s, a clear I/O bottleneck. A 3DMark stress test showed a ±14% score variance, proving that thermal instability was tanking my boost clock. I used Novabench to lock the queue depth and tweaked the core voltage to 1.28V in the BIOS Advanced Voltage settings. After that, CrystalDiskMark throughput jumped to 5.6GB/s - 6.4GB/s, and the freezing during scene transitions stopped. Blender Benchmark showed a render time drop of 8% - 11%, but honestly, due to my case airflow, latency still hovers around 1.5s—completely killing the lag is just impossible.