Thanks everyone for commenting - I'm very happy with my IC Diamond results.
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Originally Posted by HellCry
blaydes99 those two TIMs wouldnt give you such a difference in temperatures - at best around 2C after AS5 has burned in as you can find in many reviews and tests like THIS.
You must have applied the AS5 or secured the heatsink that time more poorly. You cant just post something like that when theres so much variables and when all the reviews and other tests contradict your verdict (some members here also got the same temperatures with AS5 as users who did a good ICD application like THIS or THIS)...
When it comes to high end pastes you wont get more than 1 or 2C difference and the most important thing is application not the paste itself than. Any of the top ones should be just as fine as the other as long as you apply them properly. |
You may be right, I may have put AS5 on improperly. I actually disassembled my laptop twice and did two different applications of AS5 with similar results. In reality, I'm not trying to slam or say bad things about AS5, but instead praise ICD7 for the easy application and great results from the get-go.
I would be happy to see other users get great results with AS5, but it may be helpful to find out once and for all which application is best on the G73 with AS5, as I tried both the "thin spread method" and the "glob in the middle" method and got about the same temps.