IC diamond - thermal paste deterioration ?

peterhc · 13 Jan 2017 at 13:04

Hi

Im just about to replace my thermal paste on cpu and i found some IC diamond which is supposed to be a really good one but it is few years old does thermal compound deteriorate over time ?

Loxa · 13 Jan 2017 at 13:43

peterhc said:
Hi

Im just about to replace my thermal paste on cpu and i found some IC diamond which is supposed to be a really good one but it is few years old does thermal compound deteriorate over time ?

Yes i believe it can over the space of a few years, i have read before someone mention they had a 4 year old tube which is part oily and part dry paste.

pastymuncher · 13 Jan 2017 at 19:14

That stuff does. I have a tube left over from the testing they got us to do on here a few years ago and it has set like concrete. I wasn't impressed with it anyway and had similar results from MX-2 which is why the IC Diamond is largely unused.

peterhc · 14 Jan 2017 at 01:19

So what's the best thermal compound nowadays?

Loxa · 14 Jan 2017 at 01:24

peterhc said:
So what's the best thermal compound nowadays?

I like thermal grizzly kryonaut.

Admetos · 14 Jan 2017 at 04:52

I use IC diamond, its on all my computers including some 24/7 servers.

I've never had to re-apply the paste, never seen performance drop off once applied. On graphics a card it could reduce temps by 10 degrees over manufactures paste.

The oldest application is on an i7 3rd gen from 2013, the machine is used for machine learning, it spent many months running at near 100% for long periods.

But again I really like IC Diamond, it reduces temps, performance does not drop with time, and to date never had to reapply it.

pastymuncher · 14 Jan 2017 at 13:43

peterhc said:
So what's the best thermal compound nowadays?

I used to use Gelid GC Extreme but when I used the last of that up I bought a tube of Thermal Grizzly Kryonaut. I was very impressed with it and won't be using anything else from now on.

peterhc · 14 Jan 2017 at 18:15

So far after application yesterday all good temps 2-3 lower than corsair stuff on h110gt, will have to reapply it again next week as block is not siting straight and its driving me a bit nuts ^.^

Loxa · 14 Jan 2017 at 20:00

peterhc said:
So far after application yesterday all good temps 2-3 lower than corsair stuff on h110gt, will have to reapply it again next week as block is not siting straight and its driving me a bit nuts ^.^

haha yeah i hate that