IC Diamond Thermal Compound Unboxing & Overview
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2013-05-07
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521 words · ~2 min read
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usa.com welcome to another unboxing and First Look in this case I am unboxing an
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entire carton of my favorite thermal compound so I uh it's funny cuz I sent
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an email to icy diamond and it's it's
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see iy it's like icy haha cuz it's cool
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um icy Diamond about using their thermal compound on our standardized thermal
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test bench and I was like uh guys I really want to use this but um where is
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a slick where's that old tube I thought we still had it do you have the old tube
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yeah there it is so here's their old packaging I was like I really want to use yours as our standardized stuff do
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you think you can send me some more thermal compound so that I can use it
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and they sent me 25 tubes of it so that
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I could use nothing but icy diamond for everything ever I'm planning to feed it
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to my baby so um
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there you go basically what makes this stuff good is that it has a very high
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diamond content which is um thermally
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conductive it's also doesn't dry out
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which is good I mean most modern thermal compounds have all these advantages but
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what I like about IC diamond is it applies fairly thickly so it's not messy
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and it spreads well once it heats up and it is from my experience one of the best
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performing thermal compounds out there I really like it it's really good to get a
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consistent mount with because some thermal compounds will perform great
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once they cure or if you apply them in just exactly this way whereas IC Diamond
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has always been very consistent for me I used to do benchmarking of water blocks
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long time ago um where I do comparative testing between blocks and so I've tried
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a lot of different thermal compounds and for me the most important thing was not
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necessarily if on One Mount out of five I could get the best temperatures ever
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for me it was every time I this to something and put a thing on it is it
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going to be consistent and is going to perform well so this is why I like this stuff so there you go my personal
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endorsement of icy Diamond compound and
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my personal stash of icy Diamond compound here slick you want some want
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to eat it I dared him to eat it on the video before the video started but I
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think he's going to kind of bail on us come on I I said no why don't you do it
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when you dared when you dared me I said no don't forget to subscribe to lus Tech
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tips for more unboxings reviews and other computer he's so wrong it's not
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fair go away ow my wrist