DaClan Review: Thermal Interface Shootout

[Lionhardt]

but wait, didnt dasickninja say he used a plastic knife to spread it, and wont using the rice grain technique make air pockets, and screw up the conectivity????

yeah, whatever, just tell me the pros/cons of dif techniques...

 

[dasickninja]

What you're looking to do is make a smooth, thin, even spread of the TIM over the surface of the IHS. What method you use is irrelevant as long as this is accomplished.

 

[IcY18]

Anyone else not finding the Masscool Shin-Etsu x23 anywhere? too bad you rated this stuff top of the line but i can't even find it! the egg says its been deactivated, what gives?!

 

[apt403]

Yeah, where did you get it Ninja?

 

[dasickninja]

Google is your friend people.

http://www.chillblast.com/product.php?productid=16932
http://www.ajigo-store.com/se7783d.html
http://www.crazypc.com/products/50118.html
http://www.watercoolingshop.com/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=496&osCsid=78
http://www.specialtech.co.uk/spshop/customer/product.php?productid=1236&cat=0&page=

 

[IcY18]

3 of those are not in USD, 1 is out of stock and the other 2 don't exactly look like promising reputable sites. no offense to your effort but its kind of disappointing you can't find this stuff on ZZF, newegg or another more well know site.

nevertheless the review was awesome and i appreciate the info. any chance there will be more compounds included in a later update, cause there are still many more out there that could be promising...

 

[dasickninja]

I didn't find mine on Newegg. I had to search for the stuff. If you want good overclocking parts, don't always expect to just have everything smack in your face. And also, not every Tom's user is in the US. And every site on there is reputable. I've checked.

 

[tool_462]

Why do we celebrate Jesus' birthday in a month that he wasn't even born in?

 

[dasickninja]

*Brings out college lecture on why Christ wasn't born in December*

Not for this thread tho...

 

[tool_462]

Lol agreed. Not here, not now.

 

[Guest]

Yeah I also want to congratulate you Ninja, nice work, looks like I will ditch my Zalman Nail polisher stuff, I could use the extra 2 degree to add a bit of Vcore myself, I am exactly where I want to be temp wise but not clock wise, so thanks for the hard work!

You guys freakin play CS:S, I just insalled steam on my vista install gotta gimme the server you play on =), haven't played in a whle but should come abck fast =Þ

Once again good joob ninja!

 

[diashto]

I'm not sure if this is the same stuff, but I get issued a syringe of Shin-Etsu paste with every desktop motherboard i replace (I'm a Qualxserv (Dell Contract) technician).. The syringes have the blue caps, so i assume they're the 751, but the syringes are blue, not clear.

 

[BGP_Spook]

Excellent work.

Thanks! It would be cool if you would post the raw data, so we could calculate standard deviations and do other such calculations.

10 runs each.

Is that
10x applying compound, doing one run, removing compound, or
1x applying compound, 10x run, 1x removing compound.
The reason I'm asking is that I've long suspected that the application-to-application variability in layer thickness, etc, may make as big a difference as the compound choice. It's hard to get an idea of the relative contributions of the two factors with just a single application of compound.

The environmental conditions were listed in the original post

Sorry, I should have been more detailed. I noticed in the 24 hour runs that the temps in all cases seemed to be almost cyclical, with minimums near the beginning, peaks a bit after halfway, then dropping again. My guess would be that these are single runs (doing 10 of each would have you still nowhere near done!); could the cyclical temps be due to variations in ambient temp over the course of a day (cooler at night, warmer in the daytime)? If so, were the 10x "main" runs done at the same time of the day to minimize this effect?

Thanks!
(As you can see, I get into experimental design!)

I would like to echo most of what was said by Mondoman.

Perhaps the peaks appearing at ~16-18 hours into each run are related to the program--Prime95--and the setting being used to stress.

It seems likely to me that the different sized FFT's would cause different heat loads.

I would almost bet on it in fact.

Perhaps it is worth investigating further, though not to such an extent as the current review.

Again, very well done sir.

 

[tool_462]

They do cause different heat loads. I graphed my temps over 24 hours and there were a few peaks of 31C load while usual full load is 27C.

Also, the option that says "Maximum heat and power consumption" gives me the highest load I can achieve with my windows closed (32C) at about 1 hour 15 minutes on a D805 @ 4.1. Probably get to that point in about 3 minutes on the Core 2 You get the idea though...

 

[locky28]

Can they get it in the U.S.A.?

Last time I read a Ralph mag it had a story on how USA banned Vegemite from comming through quarintine into the country, I think it was because of added folate or folate levels or something like that. No vegemite? sucks to be you guys

 

[tool_462]

I heard it tastes like yeast.

 

[locky28]

It's a you'll love it or you'll hate it thing.

 

[Datman]

Last time I read a Ralph mag it had a story on how USA banned Vegemite from comming through quarintine into the country, I think it was because of added folate or folate levels or something like that. No vegemite? sucks to be you guys

:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

Vegemite Ban
U.S. bans Vegemite?
US govt bans Vegemite -HOAX!

I heard it tastes like yeast.

More like axle grease. :lol:

 

[LAN_deRf_HA]

3 of those are not in USD, 1 is out of stock and the other 2 don't exactly look like promising reputable sites. no offense to your effort but its kind of disappointing you can't find this stuff on ZZF, newegg or another more well know site.

nevertheless the review was awesome and i appreciate the info. any chance there will be more compounds included in a later update, cause there are still many more out there that could be promising...

Crazy pc is reliable, thats where i'd get it from.

 

[tool_462]

Never ordered from them myself. Good to hear a good review, being that it looks like a little kid made their site

 

[dasickninja]

Never mind what the site looks like, focus on their product line. /wusy


And Check the blog!!

 

[tool_462]

Got an email from my University that I have a package waiting for me, which is my Razer Copperhead 8) Plan on playing some CS tonight, the server is 24/7 now? I will check it out. Where is Dario?

 

[dasickninja]

On WoW. He's pushing to lvl 60 8)

 

[tool_462]

I'm still in my free 30 days. Lvl 40 (and a half, 41 tonight) Gnome Warlock on Mal'Ganis. What server do you suckers play on?

 

[dasickninja]

Horde on Bloodscalp.