Sinks were mounted with Arctic cooling ceramique. The thermocouple head was also dabbed in Ceramique to make sure that the readings I took were accurate. Tests were done at stock speed. I will conduct OC'ed tests when I get a chance, although as you will soon see there is plenty of headroom.
Sinks mounted
Fan is Low speed Yate loon (D12SL) run at full speed. There is no other airflow over the card in this particular case (Antec Sonata III). I consider this to be a very reasonable moderate cooling setup, hardly what I would call extreme.
Ambient at start of test
I let the card warm up for 30 minutes
Memory idle
VRM idle
Card temperature @ back of VRM's
Furmark for 12 minutes (temperature stabilized after 6-7 minutes, measured first at 12 minutes and then at 15 minutes, measured temperature variance will be listed for each)
Memory load +/- 1C
VRM load +/- 1C
Back of VRM temperature +/- 3C
Ambient after testing
I think the results pretty much speak for themselves.