Had issues with pushing a weaker AIO on 12900K. After playing around with adaptive voltage and offset, I would be good during idle as always and short duration. Not thermal throttling but not stable assuming there are voltage shifts going on and the offset not helping while gaming. Backing off of the offset helps but I’m back to the same issue with higher temps.

Considered turning off e-cores but that seems to be more of an older consideration and not so much now? Don’t kill me for this comment please.

In any case I thought why not see what performance for gaming (my main use case) with hyper threading on/off. I have virtually no difference in performance but I noticed it allowed me to reduce my offset even more while remaining stable. Thus improving my temps and avoiding thermal throttle (and sustaining stock performance for the most part).

Maybe there is a better approach to my issue, like buying a better cooler lol. In any case figure I’d share my finding to anyone in a similar boat.