Well, the results tell the story. Interestingly, the thermal pad seems slightly more efficient than the thermal paste. The Titan heatsink gets blisteringly hot to the touch, so thermal transfer from the CPU seems to be occurring fine, but unfortunately the unit is just not capable of getting the heat into the surrounding air. The box rates the fans at 3200rpm and they were doing between 3200 and 3400 according to the A7V's monitoring.
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