BonzaiDuck
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- Jun 30, 2004
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I guess there are two reasons I use ICD for most of my applications. First, before ICD came on the market, I'd read the article about it by Joe Citarella at the Overclock.net forums with his calorimeter tests. Additional investigation would show you that diamond has a thermal resistance that is lower and a thermal conductivity that is higher by many times that of silver or copper.
So I bought about 5 grams of nano-diamond powder, and began mixing my own. Only a month later, I found ICD at heatsinkfactory or some other reseller.
I understand there are other "formulations" which show good results, using everything from aluminum oxide to some polymer compound. But until I see some serious test results that show these blowing away the performance of nano-diamond, I still continue to use it.
Even if I can't buy the ICD for some "shortage" in the market, I can still mix my own.
And if I have a delidded-re-lidded chip, I'll certainly use CLU. I'd use CLU just for my heatpipe cooler, but it doesn't work well for aluminum. I think it eats away at it.
So I bought about 5 grams of nano-diamond powder, and began mixing my own. Only a month later, I found ICD at heatsinkfactory or some other reseller.
I understand there are other "formulations" which show good results, using everything from aluminum oxide to some polymer compound. But until I see some serious test results that show these blowing away the performance of nano-diamond, I still continue to use it.
Even if I can't buy the ICD for some "shortage" in the market, I can still mix my own.
And if I have a delidded-re-lidded chip, I'll certainly use CLU. I'd use CLU just for my heatpipe cooler, but it doesn't work well for aluminum. I think it eats away at it.
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