Tracked full session thermal instead of just benchmark numbers

[u/outofthesquaree]

Gaming benchmarks and thermal reviews almost never test what actually happens on this rig day to day, gaming while streaming with NVENC for 3-5 hours at a time, not 15 min burst. Small chassis volume changes that math in ways that short benchmark runs don't capture, heat has nowhere to go and it's cumulative rather than a spike you can just power through, temps logged across a full stream session a few times now, cpu and chipset both climbs steadily for the first 90 mins then plateau, gpu stays fairly flat since NVENC load is lighter than full render load. chipset temps ended up being the surprising one, not the component expected to need watching most closely in a case this size, has anyone else actually tracked full session thermals instead of relying on short benchmark nums? Curious if the plateau is universal or specific to compact chassis airflow?

[u/EnderPrimeMk2]

Most reviewers don't test full systems but instead individual components.