For a few days now I’ve been at this and submitted my own personal best score at 16845 in Steel Nomad. Placement #42 and many other placements after in the USA under same hardware specs. I’ve even tried unplugging fans on gpu and fit case fans in front and behind the heatsink to reduce power from gpu. This was taken back off within an hour just to test if it would give me more headroom for power(it didn’t). To no avail I couldn’t get near my PB. I think I’m gonna shunt mod it to see where that gets it. These scores were achieved by only adjusting voltage curve. Real physical mods are about to take place. I’m gonna give it a rest for a few days(or until I decide to order the parts for the shunt mod👀🤫) if anyone is holding onto a bios that lets you hit more than 650 watts; I’d rather do that and I understand the risk of hardware failure. and I already have another psu on hand if I were to get my hands on this bios.
Specs are:
CPU: 9950x3d
GPU: Astral Air Cooled 5090
PSU: Hx1200i
RAM: 2x32gb Cl30 6000mhz Hynix a die with timings
SSD: Samsung 990pro 4tb
MOBO: Asus Crosshair Hero x870e