Banishers benchmark curves are suspiciously flat and capped at a weird level; do I need stepped stress testing to push the hardware to its absolute limits?

Flat curves usually signal an implicit power wall or scheduling ceiling. Report 2026-BP-31 using ZhiTai TiPro9000 SSD under 3DMark stress testing revealed multi-core utilization stagnating between 40% - 50%, which is abnormal. Initially, adjusting single-thread priority changed nothing. I then implemented a stepped load strategy, scaling from 20% up to 100% in 5-minute intervals. During this escalation, multi-core efficiency stabilized within an 85% - 92% range, peaking at 96%. Manually lifting power limits in BIOS and switching to Performance mode finally triggered a steep upward trajectory in throughput. One massive caveat: this aggressive push spikes SSD thermals to 72℃ - 78℃, peaking at 84℃. If you maintain this load for hours, you will definitely run into slight thermal throttling, meaning it is an unstable way to gain long-term performance.