IC Diamond 24 Giveaway/ Reliability Survey

ON MY HONOR IN EXCHANGE FOR FREE COMPOUND I DO SOLEMNLY SWEAR TO TEST AND POST MY RESULTS and to AND TO UPDATE THOSE RESULTS EVERY 3 MONTHS

 

ON MY HONOR IN EXCHANGE FOR FREE COMPOUND I DO SOLEMNLY SWEAR TO TEST AND POST MY RESULTS and to AND TO UPDATE THOSE RESULTS EVERY 3 MONTHS.

I will be happy to do it also now that I know how to dismantle my Dell Precision M6500 for repaste!

 

i still have not received mine, not sure if im ever going to get it. i posted on the first page too.

 

This is why

 

I've finally decided to re-paste my new xps. Any samples left for free participants?

If so!

"ON MY HONOR IN EXCHANGE FOR FREE COMPOUND I DO SOLEMNLY SWEAR TO TEST AND POST MY RESULTS and to AND TO UPDATE THOSE RESULTS EVERY 3 MONTHS"
ON MY HONOR IN EXCHANGE FOR FREE COMPOUND I DO SOLEMNLY SWEAR TO TEST AND POST MY RESULTS and to AND TO UPDATE THOSE RESULTS EVERY 3 MONTHS"
ON MY HONOR IN EXCHANGE FOR FREE COMPOUND I DO SOLEMNLY SWEAR TO TEST AND POST MY RESULTS and to AND TO UPDATE THOSE RESULTS EVERY 3 MONTHS"

Would love to help!

 

ON MY HONOR IN EXCHANGE FOR FREE COMPOUND I DO SOLEMNLY SWEAR TO TEST AND POST MY RESULTS and to AND TO UPDATE THOSE RESULTS EVERY 3 MONTHS

 

I applied IC24 on my M17x on the 25th of June. one week later i am noticing MUCH higher temps, as in +7 degrees C on idle! what's going on IC Diamond? I put a pea sized bit and used the heatsink to spread it!

 

Hard to tele troubleshoot problems can only guess -

Ambient room temp is +7 C higher?

Heat sink is loose?

Fan flow blocked or fan is failing?

 

Preliminary - Any errors or corrections let me know.

When given a group of tests I select the higher stress numbers as it provides more resolution for the test.

Multiple numbers or a range of numbers are averaged to reduce it to one number.

Please note the ambient room temperature - If your room temp is 5 C higher or lower your CPU temp will be 5 C higher or lower. Take your room temp at the time you take your other temp readings.

Dust will build up in the systems overtime and impact temps so blow it out or clean before taking long term check point readings.

GPU's results will be posted separately in a couple of days

 

Just received mine in the mail. I will install and post pics and stuff when i receive a hd caddy in the mail. I might as well do it in one swoop

 

Hey Andrew, I just updated my post in this forum (post #200) to give you my initial temperature readings after applying ICD. Just wanted to make sure you knew so that you wouldn't skip over it. Thanks again for the ICD!!!

 

Andrew, of course I'll give you updates!. This thermal compound is a miracle! I only use IC Diamond now . I've repasted sooo many laptops that I can't even remember how many and bought several tubes .

I remember I made a presentation about thermal pastes in my university for my thermodynamics class 2 years ago using a MSI GX620, I still have the documents. I made several comparisons with some other thermal pastes. I'll send you the files if you wish. The file is in spanish but I can translate it if you wish.

 

Just applied it like 2 hours ago. Let the laptop idle for an hour and loaded up starcraft 2.

https://picasaweb.google.com/107242...&authkey=Gv1sRgCM-Hjv6Dkd_JCw&feat=directlink

Here are photos of the entire process and a comparison of my MX-4 paste application which was 6 months old. Temps were great at start but under load started degrading. I don't have a load pic of MX-4 I forgot to take one but gpu was at 73 - 75. cpu 73 - 78. Temps are so much better on IC diamond. Now i just hope it doesn't degrade like the MX-4.

To note. Ambient temp = 22c

 

then explain why my names on the list.

 

I already recieved my Thermal Paste cleaning kit, so now im gonna call up the local post office to see if i got a package.

The weather here is so hot right now its crazy, but thankfully my Clevo keeps the heat off and the overclock stable.

 

IC Diamond made a huge difference on my temps. I pushed everything as hard as I could prior to IC Diamond and the laptop got throttled. After applying it, no throttling.

Measurements in Celsius.

Prior to IC
cpu idle - 58
cpu load- 66
GPU #1 Idle- 55
GPU #2 Idle- 45
GPU #1 Load- 90+
GPU #2 Load- 90+

With IC Diamond
cpu idle - 48
cpu load - 61
GPU #1 Idle- 35
GPU #2 Idle- 34
GPU #1 Load- 80
GPU #2 Load- 78

This is on a M17x-R2.
i7 740QM
Dual 5870m's
8GB DDR3
All stock hardware (no mods besides re-pasting with IC Diamond.
House stays at almost constant 72*F

 

Original Benchmark 2 years ago

Idle Temps 2 years later

After Benchmark 2 years later

Will also report Temps with the new tube ^^

 

Thanks sentence - any ambients for the latest test?

 

I thought I posted a screenshot after I pasted but I did another one to get a more realistic value; this was after playing Left 4 Dead 2 for about an hour.

Ambient was 27c.

 

Hello, here's the original benchmark 2 years ago:

http://forum.notebookreview.com/gateway-emachines/372333-official-icd7-thread-8.html#post4830194

These are the results of benchmarking today, using Orthos to stress both CPU cores while playing Team Fortress 2 at max graphics settings for about an hour:

Ambient temp: 75-77 degrees Fahrenheit

Core 2 Duo T5800:
Idle: 43 C Load: 66 C

Nvidia 9650m GT:
Idle: 50 C Load: 84 C (Yikes)

Hope this helps!

 

Thanks for the 25 -26 month updates I can begin to draw some curves

also anybody who has not repasted their system interested in doing a short contact and pressure test on their CPU? see link below - I can send the paper out Monday.

http://forum.notebookreview.com/7614247-post98.html

 

I just received my paste and applied it today, but I did not see the call for pressure testing subjects, so sorry

Anyway, here are the results. Ambient temp is about 26 degs. Screengrabs below are for the stock compound that came with my 3820TG.

With stock compound, idle


With stock compound, wPrime


With stock compound, 3DMark06


As seen, the stock compounds do exceedingly poorly. In fact, the CPU actually throttles while running wPrime and 3DMark06 multiple times because it hits 99 degs very often. Here's the temps with IC Diamond.

With IC Diamond, idle


With IC Diamond, wPrime


With IC Diamond, 3DMark06


As seen, the temps take a rather large drop, not even hitting 90 degs during any of the tests. Thumbs up for IC Diamond

(so much for the 3820TG's dual fan design when they give crappy compound...)

 

I don't know if I'm being a baby, but it sounds like a lot of cleaning between repastes. Do you have any cleaning solution? Maybe its not a big deal, I just don't want to spend 3 hours on a repaste job.

I got your tube of IC diamond, I'll be posting first results after my new cpu arrives. Thanks so much. Let me know about the cleaning and reapplying IC diamond, most people say it takes some dedication to make your parts shine before reapplication.

If its an easy job, I'll volunteer for your new tests. BTW, I like your business model, cater to enthusiasts, collect data, then prove your product is the best for the rest. Its unusual, I really think its a nice reach out to us modders.

 

Use isopropyl alcohol, the higher the concentration the better to clean off the old grease. If it's a new cpu, I don't think any cleaning is necessary, just make sure there isn't any dust on the chip when you apply the paste.

 

Cleaning takes 5 mins at most. It might sound like a time consuming job, but it really isn't. 5 mins is for really dry and bakes paste. Removing newly applied paste takes even less time.

One quick question, do you prefer if i post the temperatures themselves or the difference between the components and ambient?

 

Original repaste - http://forum.notebookreview.com/5003837-post216.html

Laptop - 7805u FX

IDLE CPU - 39C/38C
LOAD CPU - 65C/67C

IDLE GPU - 53C
LOAD GPU - 75C

 

Repasted GPU today. Thanks again.

Ambient 66F/18.8C

Furmark max is now 73.5C, before repasting it was 80.5C

I will update as you requested.

 

Just on a quick glance notebooks in general on the initial repaste run about +10 C higher than than the averaged overclocked PC data I have

 

Still haven't received my paste. I hope it would arrive sooner.

 

thanks, didn't know a re-paste would be that quick.

I'll gladly do your paper test, since I'm replacing the CPU I'd be a prime candidate. Just try to make it arrive soon cause my CPU is almost here and I don't want to wait too long!

 

I have the customs receipt so was mailed

 

C/P was mailed today

 

we still have samples available for those that have an interest

 

I did not read through the whole thread: Are there any Macbook Pro 2011 i7 Quad users participating?

These things reach 90-100°C in seconds with all fans flying and even idle you hardly get lower than 60°C (fans turned down).

 

Sure the more the merrier

 

But you don't qualify

 

I will make an exception - I have no macbooks and it seems to be running hot Ill take the data

 

UPDATED my stuff since I saw your chart on the 1st page says CPU (and I orginally posted my GPU temps).

Here is a 6 hour burn in of my new ES cpu on Prime95.

Ambient 66F/18.8C Idle CPU temp 47-51C. Load 80C.

 

A Macbook would probably be one of the better tests considering how hot they run, probably the best Worst-Case example you can get

 

Just got a Clevo P151HM1. I'd love to try this on it, but I don't qualify. I've always been more of a lurker.

 

I am intrested myself in to see how the results look at the end. I hope its for the better, the only hard part is that us techy people never seem to hang onto equipment long enough lol

 

On 7/5 and I still got no response to you.

By the way if you are going to send out more samples I won't be using my M6500 for the tests and instead I am phasing to the M6600 so it will take me a few weeks to get the machine arranged and all.

 

I am close to 50 posts and member for almost a year. Please consider me. My laptop cpu is running high and I need to repaste it.

ON MY HONOR IN EXCHANGE FOR FREE COMPOUND I DO SOLEMNLY SWEAR TO TEST AND POST MY RESULTS and to AND TO UPDATE THOSE RESULTS EVERY 3 MONTHS

 

I just got my tube today. A bit busy but will do some testing during the weekend.

 

i got my laptop with IC Diamond pre applied, but would still like to participate how can i do so.

 

Pasted about a week ago, having some CPU cooling issues so just now getting results up. Still working on the CPU cooling, but these numbers are a good start. If I make any drastic changes I'll update my results.

Ambient temp for all testing was 27C



At Idle



Prime 95 for 15 Minutes



FurMark for 15 Minutes

 

Here's updated temps of my Gateway M6850FX. I applied the ICD7 paste two years ago on the CPU, GPU and chipset during the first free giveaway. I cleaned the laptop every three months with compressed air.

The temperature on idle
.....................Stock TIM.....2yrs Ago ICD7............Now ICD7
ACPI...............53C..............53C...........................53C
CPU core#0.....31C..............30C...........................36C
CPU core#1.....24C..............24C...........................29C
GPU................54C..............53C...........................55C

The temperatures under the load running Orthos Prime for 75 minutes
.....................Stock TIM......2yrs Ago ICD7............Now ICD7
ACPI...............83-86C...........79-80C.....................92-93C
CPU core#0......69-75C...........62-64C.....................82-84C
CPU core#1......61-69C...........57-58C.....................74-75C
GPU.................65-69C...........59-62C.....................68-70C

I will keep the paste as is and continue using laptop and monitor the temps.

 

Thanks Martee, can you give me an ambient temp approximation ?

Do not forget to send me your address for the sample.

 

The ambient temp during test was 24-25C, sorry I forgot to mention that in my post.

Thanks a lot.

 

Finally home from my two week vacation.
Guess what i found?

A orange brownish envelope with some IC Diamond.
I will do a repaste as soon as i measured my temps on stock.

Thanks for the paste.

Edit:
Did my testing inside my cool basement at nighttime.
Ambient temp was probably around 24c to 26c.

Did three runs, all while forcing the internal fans to 100%.
No notebook cooler or other cooling tech was used.

Stock paste idle temps.


Stock paste prime95 stress test on all 8 cores.


Stock paste Furmark Xtreme Burn-in on HD 6970m.