Yup. What I think may be involved as well is hotspot temperature versus core temps. While initially booting, I’ll see the hotspot temp get to around 100 C while the core temp is around 55 C to 60 C before the fans begin to really ramp. Afterwards, while core temp will gradually rise to 70 C, the hotspot temp will drop a lot more quickly. Another thing is giving the TIM time to “break in”. I know that PTM7950 requires a few heat cycles for it to work its best but I didn’t expect the same for liquid metal. After a week of using liquid metal, I decided to repaste it (was going to do another mod but then realized it wasn’t necessary) and after using fresh liquid metal, my core temps increased by 10 C which was really weird. After giving it a few days, it went back down to 70 C average.