Innovation Cooling's Diamond 7 TIM test results

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Farm-07 Shin Etsu G751 test.

Farm-07 is a Q6600 running on an EVGA 680i A1 rev board @ 2.8gig. It is in a rack mount (4RU) case, horizontal mobo, with a Zalman 9700 cooler. This has an Antec cyclone double slot cooler for exhaust (plus the PSU exhaust) and a 120 mm fan for intake air.

Starting paste is a Shin Etsu G751 mount, about 6 months old.

I accidentally twisted the 9700 when taking it off. This may have messed up the spread pic, but whatcha gonna do....It doesn't appear that I was real generous on this mount. The paste looks a bit thin, even though it's covered...




I used a healthy pea blob with D7. Here it is



Shin Etsu - before Temps

Idle:
Ambient 25.9C
CoreTemp 49,49,45,46

Load:
Ambient 25.9C
BOINC, Months of straight running...
Coretemp 66,65,61,63


D7 - After Temps

Idle:
Ambient 26.1C
CoreTemp 45,45,40,43

Load:
Ambient 24.6C
BOINC, 16 hours running
Coretemp 61,60,58,60

As you can see, the D7 beat the old Shin Etsu mount quite well. Several degrees when you factor ambients in.....