IC Diamond

MAXIBOY · 13 Aug 2011 at 16:44

IC Diamond 24-Carat Thermal Compound

is it worth 12.00 if i already have arctic silver 3 and tuniq compound

Broken Hope · 13 Aug 2011 at 16:52

Depends how anal about temps you are, I doubt it will make a difference of more than a couple of degrees.

j.col · 13 Aug 2011 at 21:14

Broken Hope said:
Depends how anal about temps you are, I doubt it will make a difference of more than a couple of degrees.

this^^ i got some for free in the trial, and there is about 2.C difference over my old MX-4.
imo its too expensive compared to the other stuff

stulid · 13 Aug 2011 at 21:16

I got both the free samples, and havent even touched it, still got Artic Silver5 and MX-2 to use first.

ahar · 14 Aug 2011 at 09:26

The smaller tube is only £6 if you don't expect to be changing it that often

pastymuncher · 14 Aug 2011 at 13:58

In my opinion it's simply not worth it. I also had both types in the free trial and it made very little difference in my rig over my MX-2. If i remember right it was around 0.5 degree better on my cpu load temps. It made no difference to my gpu temps at all. Perhelion was worse performing than MX-2 on my rig. The IC stuff is a pain to work with as well. Really thick and quite hard to remove. I went straight back to my MX-2 after i finished the trial.

OLDPHART · 14 Aug 2011 at 22:37

Use MX4, spreads well, just put a small pea sized blob in the middle of your CPU, screw down the heatsink the correct way. About a week later just tighting the screws up a touch more as the TIM will have settled down.