I forgot an important piece of info in my last post, it doesn't really help the temp spike much. Custom water gives you the ability to add capacity, it takes a lot longer to heat soak a custom loop. It doesn't fundamentally change the real issue which is physics. The only way to get around that is less volts, less heat. After playing around with my own chip yesterday I was able to do an all core OC of 5.1Ghz without going above 1.3V and the temps stay at 70c when rendering a video and in the 50s while gaming. The best part is I was able to up the uncore to 45 (cache ratio) which significantly improved my overall performance.
After your problems, and helping my friend out I did a lot of digging and came to the conclusion that ALL boards are just completely eradicating the Intel limits in the sake of raw performance in reviews. Before I used to blame Asus as the #1 company guilty of this but these days they all do it. On Intel and AMD. Then Jay2C posts a video saying the same thing about a day later. My own conclusion is, 12th and 13th gen CPUs actually run rather cool and much faster than they're given credit for. The idiot techtubers have a severely flawed manner of testing, and years later still continue to do things wrong giving everybody the bad impression of fault (on Intel) when in fact it's the board makers. The people of the internet regurgitate this info claiming "these CPUs just run so hot" when in fact they don't. My last AMD customer upgraded to a 5900X and the stock Asus voltage was causing his CPU to sit in the 80c area while gaming. That's absurd. Changing the voltage dropped his temps 30 degrees instantly without losing any performance or clocks because Asus was shooting 1.45v to the CPU! That's kill mode territory.
