The original decision was made based on cost. I would like to say that it was a mistake, but then again USB beat competing standards precisely because it was cheaper, so maybe it wouldn't have won if they had started out with decent connectors.
I am no fanboy of Apple, but the lightning connector was a step up from MicroUSB, but it is a step down from USB-C. USB-C should have been around a long time ago, I don't know why we needed fixed orientation connectors on USB for so long. Now...
That score is not bad at all dude.
My max on PBO with a lot of LLC wasn't much higher, and my chip hit high 80s in temp. (maybe 4-500 higher) so it looks like your chip is working just fine with PBO enabled.
Pretty sure that is with PBO. I'm 99.9 % sure it will use the CPUs stock TDP setting of 105w(unless you manually change it) which is very limiting for 16 cores. PBO extends those limits to a much higher # which allows the CPU to stretch its legs...
Sry been a while since I mined eth. Been on Flux as with parallel assets its actually more profitable than eth and 2080ti is the king of that algo especially when you consider efficiency.
update.
MSI ghosted me for a couple weeks. When I emailed them they said there was physical damage and they couldn't issue a replacement so they will be sending broken card back.
I called and said the only "damage" done was to the sticker to...
I sold it. Right now I'm using XFX Speedster MERC 6800XT - cool, quiet, and much better - it gave me 100% pass on 3D Mark stress test (20 loops) - even RTX 3080 at stock settings had 98,6. I even get "Rock Solid" achievement on Steam. Closing...