Thanks. I assume you mean P1 Therm Ctrl % and P2 Therm Ctrl %. I haven't seen it report anything but 0 so far, lol.The fans will ramp up when the P% Therm Margin falls below 20%... This is roughly ~80c core temp. Intel's approach is to balance the system noise with temps. There are various physical and virtual (aggregate) sensors all factoring into the BMC control of the cooling domains.
Stereodude had previously provided an excellent explanation of how he modified the SDR (sensor data records) to ramp the fans up sooner to maintain a larger P% Therm Margin. I myself haven't considered it necessary to do that.
80C does seem rather high considering the max temp looks like 82C. In the BIOS I noticed there was a section for "acoustic/power" (forget what it is called) that has like 4 preset behaviors. Does anyone know if this has any impact on this behavior? If not I might have to consider doing what Stereodude did as letting it go up to 80C doesn't make a lot of sense.