IC Diamond 24 Giveaway/ Reliability Survey

[widezu69]

I participated in the test 2 years ago and I have got a new laptop which I have repasted with ICD7:

Before
CPU (i7 3610QM) - ~50C (Idle) ~71C (everyday intensive load such as video rendering and photo work)
GPU (GTX 680m) - ~49C (Idle) ~68C (gaming load)

After
CPU (i7 3610QM) - ~47C (Idle) ~67C (everyday intensive load such as video rendering and photo work)
GPU (GTX 680m) - ~44C (Idle) ~64C (gaming load)

Ambient hovering around 24C.

Very consistent improvements however, in my experience, ICD does have the same issue that all other thermal pastes suffer and that is longevity under very hot conditions. My temperatures gradually worsened as my previous laptop had a 2920XM that I would constantly be running at over 80C sometimes venturing into 90C. ICD was the best at suppressing the temps but eventually it wore out, a repaste helped it. My mate's laptop which never rose passed 70C on any of the components stayed consistent throughout the 2 year period.

I will keep updating this with more info as time goes on.

I hope this helps. I will register in the email and keep the testing going

[TANWare]

Sorry for this double post but you have the same post on two threads..............

It is not just the paste. The problem is the harder you stress out heat pipes the faster they wear out. A repaste may help somewhat but what you will find is you never get back to the original temps.

The problem is not just the pipes but contact. Since the majority of the HS's rely on sprung metal legs these legs provide less presaure over timeand excess heat actually accelerates this loss of contact preasure. There can be other forces involved as well so there is no real clear cut answer as every system is different. I can tell you with my prior installs, at least one last 12 months, the temps held up just as good as the day installed ubt thus was a shimmed install taking care of leveling and the sprung preasure................

[IC Diamond]

To TANWare's point

Torment78's Update

Hi Andrew i would say 6 months an the temps was as the first benches i ran then some thing happend almost over night the temps bumpt up ca 10 to 15c i almost 100% that the reason was not ICD but my heatzink two of the springs was out of line it and had loosened on one side hope this helps
by the way i have the original GPU paste i did from the start so it has been on there since the beginning of the test and they are the same not even 1c difrense from the original benches and trust me they have been under load the other week i ran a 34400 Vantage on the gpu's Overclocked to the max never hit over 75c

TANWare is 100% correct, besides adequate application amount the only 2 things anybody has to know to understand thermal compound reliability and thermal compound performance is good contact/pressure (C/P).

It's that simple, if the sink's barely touching the CPU Performance will drop.

If the sink's barely touching the CPU, perhaps only 25% contact area you have 3X heat transfer through 1/4 the area. The solder iron effect with the increase in heat density will kill any paste or LM in short order, even solder joints fail under these thermal stresses.

If you had a 100 Identical notebooks with all with a great mounting system and running the same wattage results would be pretty much identical in performance and reliability. The issue in variability of mechanics in mounting are reflected in the variability of results.

Following charts show a non trivial 9 C spread- To qualify a result it has to be quantified.


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[Karamazovmm]

Well sorry for the delay:

MSI ex625

Before:

Load: 95c

Idle: 50c

After:

Load: 90c

Idle: 48c

Ambient temps were 28c

MBP 13 early 2011

Before

Load: 95c

Idle: 55c

After

Load: 90c

Idle: 50c

Ambient temps were 28c

The temps are similar, I have the done testing without my custom notebook cooler on the msi, and no cooler at all on the mbp. Load temps were achieved while gaming, no overclock applied to the msi. The drops have been consistent on the same systems.

More to the point, the temps remained the same on the MBP throught 1 year. The msi 4670m has gone caput so I have only temps after 2 weeks of application.

Again sorry for the delay, I used the paste on a desktop as well, it was packing a e5200, drop in temps have been significant there, due to the poor/non existent thermal application.

[IrateMike]

I had the graphics card that I originally provided the test data for fail, (6970m) and was sent a replacement 6990m that I used IC Diamond with.
I fit the card around 6 months ago, and my temperatures are as follows:
Ambient: 20degrees celsius
Idle:
CPU: 45 degrees celsius
GPU: 42 degrees celsius

Load:
CPU: 65 degrees celsius
GPU: 78 degrees celsius

Cheers



Mike

[IC Diamond]

thanks for the updates guys - Still 14 short all candidates for the WALL OF SHAME I am constructing....

[avanish11]

Time for an update.

Ambient temps are probably around 78-80 degrees F. I don't have a thermometer to check right now.

Core 2 Duo T5800:
Idle: 53 C Load: 83 C

Nvidia 9650m GT:
Idle: 54 C Load: 79 C

The temps have gone up compared to a year ago: IC Diamond 24 Giveaway/ Reliability Survey

[IC Diamond]

Time for an update.

Ambient temps are probably around 78-80 degrees F. I don't have a thermometer to check right now.

Core 2 Duo T5800:
Idle: 53 C Load: 83 C

Nvidia 9650m GT:
Idle: 54 C Load: 79 C

The temps have gone up compared to a year ago: IC Diamond 24 Giveaway/ Reliability Survey

avanish11 Thanks for the update much apreciated

Following the links this a 3 year old application?

[yknyong1]

Andrew, wonder if you are interested to do C/P testing for my Macbook Air 13. In fact I can also monitor the MBA temp. I need to repaste, so you can PM me regarding this.

[IC Diamond]

Andrew, wonder if you are interested to do C/P testing for my Macbook Air 13. In fact I can also monitor the MBA temp. I need to repaste, so you can PM me regarding this.

Your Compound and paper hit the post today.

I will accept new applicants for free compound as long as they agree to do a Contact and Pressure test prior to application and update their results