Innovation Cooling's Diamond 7 TIM test results

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Your bottom diagram is exactly the profile I've seen when I have lapped core 2 quads. An island in the middle surrounded by a "moat". And I agree that the paste pattern has agreed with the pressure film all along. I had noted this in the results from the original post that this CPU

EDIT: Andrew, if you want the high res pictures of anything I've posted, let me know and I can email them. I resize them all to 9 inches wide for posting here. The normal res I shoot at would be 31 inches wide posted here...

A high res of the Center Glaze would be great. The BLT there is probably only .001 thick. If you all want to send me your CPU's I run a dial indicator check on them, I promise to send them back .

I wonder if it is possible to to take an impression on a piece of fine metal foil. Then take on indicator reading off of that. compressed state vs relaxed

Yes you did say that from the beginning about the contact and I was not listening. I was looking at the trees, not the forest. Great observation on your part. Thick headed on mine.