Recently messed around with shims and Upsiren UX Pro again. Ran a static test scene in Black Desert that absolutely giga-loads the GPU, you can even spot one of my meme names in there.
The results still impress me, honestly. For context: Kryonaut handled the die/shim contact, shim thickness is 1.5 mm. I ripped the old pads, laid down some Kapton tape, slapped everything back together, and did a couple reseats for tuning, boom.
It’s on a flashed BIOS, so I wanted that extra thermal headroom.
(First shot is stock, second is with the new setup.)