The userbenchmark score for this machine is probably unachievable 😱. I just recently got mine from China and yesterday I swap the Celeron G9505 with an I9 11900 (es version codename: QVYE ). This CPU also consumes 125w and turbos on all cores up to 4.1 Ghz . But the problem is its hot like it gets to 100c in 2 minutes. The RTX 3070 is also not doing well idles at 60 Celsius and maxed at 90c which by then it will already thermal throttled. Just now I had bought the materials that you mentioned above. Hopefully it can help lower the temps. Right now I'm planning on unlocking the Bios but the Chinese tutorial suggest me to downgrade back to 10.7.04 (I don't understand Chinese but it seemed that way). The bios version 10.7.03 stutters a lot for me right now im using 10.7.13. Any tips on this? BTW what do you think about using liquid metal on this machine?