IC-Diamond WATER cooling thread

[frostdragon]

To sum up what i suspect is this. The back plate on water blocks is a MASSIVE contributing factor on contact and pressure.

Even the slightest bow on the motherboard can force the heatsink away from the cpu ihs and thus promote poor contact.

The 2011 pin testing is the BEST way that anyone in these forums can replicate t he same results for themselves. The reason for that is that the back plate will be the same for all tests.

Reasoning part two.

If the back plate, motherboard, cpu, block ,mounting are all the same then we have the SECOND half of the equation and that would be the water block itself.

So what have we learned?

Motherboard backing plate is a MAJOR contributing factor to contact or poor contact on your cpu/ihs

Poor contact and pressure = higher cpu temps and DECREASED lifespan of your TIM.

Waterblock itself comes into play.

As we we were saying if we have the same backing plate (as we used in the 2011 pin tests) then we know that with all the differing results we know that some water blocks have better contact than others and that ANY CPU IHS is far from flat unless lapped.

We also have found out that waterblock mounting plates are not exactly doing their job properly either.

Frost Dragon

 

[frostdragon]

Right folks

Just asked OCUK to create a nice graphic for the giveaway.

Once this is completed we will start the aforementioned

Here i will point a link to the giveaway itself, when it is set to go.

Enjoy

Frost Dragon

 

[frostdragon]

IC Diamond giveaway thread LINK!

We are giving away 100 tubes of IC DIAMOND!

1 tube to each lucky person

SEE:

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?p=26243526#post26243526

For more details.

Regards

Frost Dragon

 

[frostdragon]

IC-D reliability testing

We performed a reliability questionnaire some months back in the highest heat impact environment possible for a computer and that was in laptops.

Some interesting observations are made here.

http://forum.notebookreview.com/ali...ra-any-tips-before-i-start-5.html#post9527000

Well, here are some tests we can use as a baseline for comparisons. I ordered a tube of Noctua NT-H1 Thermal Compound and a tube of Coollaboratory Liquid Ultra for testing. I will replicate the same tests using identical overclock settings with the other pastes to see how they work on a fresh repaste compared to an application of IC Diamond that has already been subjected to 30 days of use, included some pretty severe overclocking.

Control System Conditions
Thermal Paste IC Diamond - applied on December 8, 2013 (30 days of overclocking) - see extreme benchmarks run on this fresh ICD paste [LINK]
Tested CPU / Clock Speed 3920XM / 4.3GHz (43x4) - Note: this is my normal everyday clock speed for this CPU, running with c-states disabled 24/7
Flex VID / XTU Add'l Turbo Voltage 5 / 19.53125mV (Flex bumped to 10 for 3DMark11 and Vantage for improved stability)
Pri Plane / XTU Core Current Limit 896 / 112.000A
ThrottleStop Settings TRL: 43, 43, 43, 43 - Flex 5; TPL: Long: 200, Short: 200, Turbo Time Limit: 0.0010s, Package Current Limit: 112

If anyone else, including [Nikos], would like to jump in and use these same settings and replicate the tests, it would be awesome to see how consistent the results are. We may see different temps, but from the results we might be able to calculate a reasonably accurate percentage of change. Even if we can't be reasonably accurate with calculations, we might be able to get an accurate pulse on which paste is the consistent winner among multiple systems running at the same or similar overclock speeds.

Be sure to run the tests before repasting, just as I am doing today. To keep it interesting, I ran some tests in both Windows 7 and Windows 8.

Another link
http://forum.notebookreview.com/har...iamond-24-giveaway-reliability-survey-28.html

cheers Frost Dragon

 

[pastymuncher]

Can you buy that contact paper stuff anywhere? Would be nice to see where i am at with my blocks and if i can improve things.

 

[frostdragon]

Yes you can purchase it almost anywhere

 

[pastymuncher]

Unfortunately it's super expensive so will give that a miss then.

 

[SavellM]

It is people like the above gentleman is what makes my job fun and interesting. I love creative solutions, now if you have a image with the ICD actually used on the chip die itself, you win yourself a tube of ic7.

Well done!

Can you please show a before and after temps with your setup using icd? If so and if you can still show a photo with icd installed ill upgrade you to a nice IC24 tube.

Once again well done

Frost Dragon

So finally got around to pulling off the CPU block.

But like I say, before and after wouldn't be fair as before was stock Intel CPU cooler on air.
Now this is de-lidded and on water.
I never used any other paste on the die only IC Diamond so nothing to compare to there unfortunately.

Hope you enjoy