IC Diamond24/Perihelion4gm Giveaway

Hey,

Mine turned up today also, will be testing on an i5 760, i7 2600k and a core 2 duo e6420.

The e6420 will be stock TIM and the diamond as my boss won't be too happy with me taking his pc apart several times.

I can also test on an amd x2, stock cooler and compound vs diamond.

Results to follow :)

Thanks IC diamond, and just noticed - we get ripped off for postage in the uk :eek: $1.44 for international post is insanely cheap! - Fancy mailing me some fuel IC ;)
 
received mine today thank you, will get a chance to strip down in the next couple of weeks and post up results :)
 
damn webbo i was just going to throw up some numbers and say thanks for the free stuff now you have gone and been all pro :)
 
i shall be ordering some diamond on the back of this review to replace my AS5, how many applications would you roughly get form one of these?
 
Sayso said:
damn webbo i was just going to throw up some numbers and say thanks for the free stuff now you have gone and been all pro :)
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lol. Sorry m8. It's just a pet hate of mine when people give a one liner with no info for comparison. The results are meaningless if you don't put a little effort into presenting the results when folk want to compare.

Kanifee said:
i shall be ordering some diamond on the back of this review to replace my AS5, how many applications would you roughly get form one of these?
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That would depend on if you buy the 1.5 gram or the 4 gram syringe m8.
 
w3bbo said:
Damn you - I would have got away with it too if it wasn't for those pesky kids lol!
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hehe i know but now I feel I have to make a token effort for free stuff... think i will just do the CPU but if i get time i will take off gpu block and do that aswell, the thing is if i do that, i will be tempted to change the loop a bit that makes all results meaningless anyway :(
 
Hey,

Ok, so my first pc to receive the IC diamond treatment is my trusty D630 Laptop. This thing has seen its better days but still provides me use for Dungeon Keeper 2 and my degree work!

Room temperature is sat at 20 currently according to a digital and olde school mercury thermometer.

Results will be taken with the laptop allowed to reach windows and idle for twenty minutes and then with both the cores loaded with prime 95 for thirty minutes, and then furmark run for thirty minutes to heat up the GPU.

After the tests have been run the laptop will be taken apart and the heatsink compound changed on the cpu, gpu and chipset. This application will happen only once for obvious reasons - given its a laptop I'm only willing to take it to pieces once!

Results :




Finally a comparison chart to see the difference. I realise this isn't indicative of modern compounds but its just a FYI that changing laptop compound makes an unbelievable difference.



A major bonus to changing the interface material in a laptop such as mine - the gpu might live to see its third birthday as they are known to fail in these things. The gpu drop was most impressive though what I must add here is that I changed the way it was mounted by bending the heatsink more and using the IC diamond instead of a thermal pad.


More results to come from a core2duo, i5 760, amd x2 5000+ and i7 2600k. Bare with me!
 
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Nice effort w3bbo:).

Any one going to test it with Intel Burn Test? That's the program I will be using to test MX-4 and IC Diamond on my Q6600 (hot chip).

Btw what camera did you use to take the photos.? They seem very clear and sharp. I have an ancient digital camera and it is pants at taking photos. They are always blurry :(.


Btw I don't know if I should also average the temps like that with my Q6600. there is always 6-8c difference between cores plus it is not a true quad core but rather two dual cores E6600 placed on one die. In my case core0,core1 are always 6-8C hotter than core2,core3.
 
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WingZero30 said:
Nice effort w3bbo:).

Any one going to test it with Intel Burn Test? That's the program I will be using to test MX-4 and IC Diamond on my Q6600 (hot chip).

Btw what camera did you use to take the photos.? They seem very clear and sharp. I have an ancient digital camera and it is pants at taking photos. They are always blurry :(.


Btw I don't know if I should also average the temps like that with my Q6600. there is always 6-8c difference between cores plus it is not a true quad core but rather two dual cores E6600 placed on one die. In my case core0,core1 are always 6-8C hotter than core2,core3.
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I was gonna use burn test or linX but Prime seems to be more popular so the results could be more easily replicated by others. My camera is just a basic Canon jobbie with a gorillapod stand (you will get better pics on a stand).

You'll be lucky to find any multi core processor with temps exactly the same across the cores. Contact from the IHS to the core is always inconsistant sadly resulting in varying temps.
 
w3bbo said:
I was gonna use burn test or linX but Prime seems to be more popular so the results could be more easily replicated by others. My camera is just a basic Canon jobbie with a gorillapod stand (you will get better pics on a stand).

You'll be lucky to find any multi core processor with temps exactly the same across the cores. Contact from the IHS to the core is always inconsistant sadly resulting in varying temps.
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In post 97 of this thread I found out that the base of my heatsink is convex. However IC Diamond noted that my pressure is good as my IFX-14 has spring screws for tightning the heatsink and provide greater pressure. I must say my IFX-14 has quite a tricky mounting system and it is very easy to move the cooler if not careful.

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showpost.php?p=18506256&postcount=97
 
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