u/Efficient-Ocelot-741

How even?

I've been testing this thing for a few days now and trying to get the most out of it. Had a really hard time trying to figure out how to properly cool it and decided to just follow what others have suggested on here. I have stripped the middle part of the heat sink's top layer and put a high static pressure Corsair fan on top of it and that seems to have solved the issue. I also tore apart an old OCZ 700w PSU I had lying around to power the board. I'm going to build a case for it later down the line.

As for testing, I started with just getting everything running first. I used the AMD BC 250 guide to unlock it to 40CUs and some of the power management fixes. I'm not too familiar with Linux or Bazzite so I used ChatGPT to help me figure out some problems I was having navigating the OS. The CPU can now idle to 800Mhz and clock up to 3.5Ghz. I undervolted the GPU a little in the config file of Skillfish Governor. My temps on an open "test bench" are around 50c idle and up to 80-85c under gaming load. Room temp was around 24c.

Power draw on idle is at around 70W. During gaming it jumps up to 220W.

At first I used FurMark to check if it was stable, but its just too heavy of a load and it kept thermal throttling. I then got 3DMark running through Steam (I have a payed version) and ran Fire Strike since that was the only benchmark that was working. Everything was passing and I had no crashes going through multiple runs. I also tried benchmarking Unigine Heaven and Superposition, which ran great too.

I'm going to test some more things later but for now this is what I've found so far.
Oh, and I also tried to run VR games, but it requires a hardware codec or something that the board currently doesn't have. So no luck there.

Feel free to ask questions. I'm still new to this.

See pics for results.