Yeah the 17-40L is a beautiful landscaping lens... really need a tilt-shift lens for architectural stuff tho because the distortion at 17mm on full frame is baaaad.

I took my rig back into the cold for some testing with C-states enabled. It was perfectly stable in LinX but no improvement in GFLops, so I tweaked voltages for quite some time but ultimately it made no difference. I'm guessing LinX is playing funnies with me again. Bottom line is there were no major fluctuations in GFlops and no freezing or BSODs, so it's definitely still stable. Mem bandwidth is right where it should be in Aida64 - 21 read, 17.5 write, and 20 copy.

In any case 4.7GHz is probably a little on the toasty side for daily use so I'll do some more tweaking with 4.6GHz and 4.5GHz when I have time.

I recently swapped out my copper TRUE with a standard TRUE, and the cooling is 2-3C behind at the very most... but I haven't lapped the new one yet, and the 990X is lapped, so I'd expect the lapped performance to be more or less the same. The copper one sure looks nice but it's just far too heavy for my liking - I had to tie it to the roof of the case for peace of mind lol.