Coollaboratory Liquid Ultra

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I don't usually start new threads but I just had to share my experience with this stuff.

I currently have a 6600k @ 4.65GHz. I don't have a very good chip and need 1.45v to get it stable unfortunately. Therefore it's delidded and I've been trying to find a thermal paste to put onto the die to keep my temperatures under control.

I've been trying to avoid CLU (WHY?!) and tried other pastes:

Noctua NT-H1 - Massive pump out effect after just 1 day
IC Diamond - Seems to suffer from pump out effect just has a slower onset
AS5 - Thermal performance seems to drop off too

Anyway I picked up some CLU and applied it onto the die and I'll let the pics do the talking.

Diamond IC just after repaste:

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Noctua NT-H1 1 day after repaste:

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CLU just after repaste with Diamond IC ontop of the IHS:

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The Diamond IC and NT-H1 performed almost identically just the Diamond IC seemed to take longer to pump out.

Now only time will tell if the CLU suffers any drop in performance but by looking at those temperatures so far I'm extremely impressed.
 
I delidded my 4790k and used ultra which gave me about a 10 degree drop but perhaps more importantly reduced the difference across the cores as previously I had one very hot core!
 
Yeah i put it everywhere, it stains and sets hard though so is hard to get off again, basically it means ya have to lap your IHS and CPU block every time you remove it. Also i found out if ya have to keep an eye on your temps as my CPU temp went up a lot after i had moved my pc between houses a few times and the block must have moved a little and sat up onto some of the dried paste causing rubbish temps, after a quick sand down and reapply it was all good again though.
 
Been just over a year since I delidded my 3770k and applied CLP, temps have stayed the same as the day I applied it. It's great stuff and very reassuring when you see a dramatic drop in temps.
 
Had IC Diamond on my old 9550 running at 4GHz for a few years and never had a drop off in temp's.

Still the CLU would probably shave 5 or so °'s off so if your temps are struggling it does look good. My 6700k is running at 4.4 and just doesn't give me any temp problems.
 
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