docs: the SoC under a full core, measured; the heatsink question closes

CAMPAIGN-LOG gains the 2026-08-24 drill: five minutes of openssl speed on
the one core over the live camera stream, 30 C chassis, plateau 70.8 C
with no throttle and every cooling device at state 0. BRINGUP's facts bank
drops its open question (whether ForgeFIRM's load wants the heatsink the
factory never fitted) for the measured fact: 14 C of headroom to the
passive trip under full load, a hot-chassis case above roughly 44 C.

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## 2026-08-24: the SoC under a full core, and where it settles
The die read 65.6 C (150 F) with the camera stream running and nothing
else, in a 30 C chassis, which was enough of a number to ask what a full
core does to it. The drill: `openssl speed -seconds 50 sha256` on the one
core for 300 s, on top of the live stream, cloud mode at idle with the
laser locked, a monitor sampling the thermal zone, `cpufreq-cpu0`, both GPU
cooling devices and the load average every 5 s. The die climbed 2.9 C in
the first 30 s and 4.6 C by 2.5 minutes, then sat at **70.8 C (159 F)** from
3.5 minutes to the end, at 0 percent idle and a load average near 3. No
cooling device left state 0, the core stayed at 996 MHz, `/status` read
`soc_throttle 0` throughout, and the driver's grade line in dmesg is the
one the facts bank quotes: `Commercial CPU temperature grade - max:95C
critical:90C passive:85C`. Thirty-five seconds after the load ended the
die was back at 67.9 C.
Read: the bare SoC, no heatsink, holds **14 C of headroom to the passive
trip and 19 C to the poweroff** under the worst load the one core can
produce, in a 30 C chassis. The die-to-chassis delta at full load is about
41 C, so by arithmetic, not measurement, a chassis above roughly 44 C is
what reaches the passive trip; the load alone does not. The facts bank's
open question, whether ForgeFIRM's load wants the heatsink the factory's
never did, closes with this entry: it does not. The per-job SoC range and
the throttle log line stay as the running record.
## Superseded status notes
### Shared machine services — remaining polish, as listed 2026-08-13