Vista Tutorial - IC Diamond 7 The Best Compound

Today I was playing around with the new thermal compound and my M6850 FX lappy with the Intel T9300, 2.50GHz processor. I do know the most of you on the Forum use the desktop computers with much better cooling systems than in my little notebook, but perhaps you will be interested in this.

I received for testing the new for me, the paste from the Innovation Cooling
company, the IC Diamond 7 Carat Thermal Compound, the Advanced formulation cooling compound with 92% diamond powder.

Here's the key features of the Innovation Cooling Diamond 7 paste

* Each tube of IC Diamond Thermal grease contains 7 carats of micronized diamond with diamond particle loadings @ 94% by weight. Material loading above 90% is recommended as the best combination of rheological and thermal properties to minimize interface pump out due to thermal cycling.
* Superior bulk conductivity
* Excellent thermal impedance
* Tight particle distributions
* < 40 µ maximum particle diameter
* Silicone free
* Lower viscosity
* Greater stability
* Non capacitive or electrically conductive


After finished the tests I'm impressed by the performance of the ICD7 paste. The temps dropped down at least 5-6 degree on the CPU, GPU and chipset on my Gateway 15.4" notebook.

Here's the temperature on idle measured with HWMonitor.

.....................without ICD7......with ICD7
ACPI...............53C..................53C

CPU core#0.....31C...................30C
CPU core#1.....24C...................24C

GPU................54C...................53C


And the temperatures under the load

.....................without ICD7......with ICD7
ACPI...............83-86C.............79-80C

CPU core#0.....69-75C..............62-64C
CPU core#1.....61-69C..............57-58C

GPU................65-69C..............59-62C



First I was planning to use the ICD7 just on the graphic card chip and chipset and stick to the Arctic Cooling MX-2 paste on the processor, but finally I decided to get the ICD7 compound on CPU as well. I'm glad I did it, because the temps dropped on the cpu as well, in comparison with the MX-2 paste.

I also was trying the Arctic Silver 5 the first time when I got my lappy, but the temperature of the processor was 3-4C higher in comparision to the MX-2 compound that I used lately. The AS 5 is the worst paste of these three compounds I tested.

I will monitor the temperature for the next few days just to be sure everything is ok.
So far so good.

Thanks for reading...cheers...

thats impressive results , i have had the same results with arctic silver though , but AC5 seems to need time to "settle in" whereas your new paste seems to have instant effect! I wonder if given time it'll get even better? , ill have to look out for it

nice......, thanks for sharing


i just ordered this thermaltake V1 cooler, i may look into aquirering some of this grease....






SK

Toothpaste and Vegemite are not to be dismissed either

Thermal transfer compound comparison

lol....thats me off to the shop for some mighty ''vegimite''


i dont doubt company's use fake statistics to sell products, i think it just gives us that slight reassurance that someone actually took some time to create superb heat dissapation with the grease your using at the time, kind of like a placebo......lol


your certainly gonna be worrying a little more if all you have on there is a dollop of Macleans extra white....






SK

Thanks guys. I'm really impressed with the results and I'm glad I could lower the operating
temperature in my notebook. As you know the temps in the notebooks are real problem, there is
no much room over there, everything is cramped together so tightly into the chassis.

Today, I was studying the screenshots from the yesterday tests and I found out that the hard drive
temp is lover also. It's 4-5C lower than before, thanks to lower overall temp inside the case.
Frankly, I was staring at the GPU and CPU temps and didn't notice the HDD one until today. Silly me.


I was using the Arctic Silver 5 in my lappy for three months, since I swapped the CPU for
the T9300. I guess the paste had more than 200 hours time to cure over there. The notebook run
almost non stop during that time. I was able to drop 2C in comparison to the stock factory grease
with the AS 5. It was not impressive result. I had to leave the stock thermal pads on the graphic
card and the chipset, because the gap between the hitsink on the chips is almost one millimeter
wide, so I couldn't use the AS 5 there.

With the IC Diamond 7 compound I was able to fill these gap without any problem. The paste is
specially made to be used on the GPU and/or the chipset where otherwise are used the thermal pads.

I'm planning to fix my other machines with this paste very soon. I highly recommend the ICD 7.

Cheers...

add:Thanks H2SO4, I read this one and looks like the water is the best

Ceramic is suppost to be decent as well. Keep meaning to try something new. Will have a look and see how ceramic fairs up against this diamond stuff.

Hmmmm...Does the manufacturer offer financing?

You bet !