Just a heads up on the "sponsored thing", besides maybe a dozen of peeps here noone is really sponsored in the Elite class.
Defining sponsored is far from what most think, get all hardware for free and bench it... especially if you receive one sample for a limited period of time
I'm there becasue I could get my hands on ES samples for reviewing purposes and testing... Were these binned chips, nope besides a lucky 5960X I received (which had to be given back after the article...)
So forget that Elite scores always need to be better than maybe extreme ones? Nope as it all will depend on how good the samples are, read it is not always about the skill...
Also taking into account if you get freebies for a limited amount of time like me I, main objective was to properly test for the launch article (bios debugging and crap) and do LN2 in a half a day.. no way to maximize efficiency at all... but yep I could do some scores with less money spend than if I had to buy a retail CPU... so not complaining at all...
I'm in for above propositions, but I would split up from Single stage cooling on like Bones suggested