Did you read this on Hackaday lol? http://hackaday.com/2009/08/03/diamond-thermal-paste/ It's not as great as you would imagine, but it has a lot of potential over silver-based paste.
Just been reading about this and was about to post it but it's already here Look very interesting, tempted to give it a try.
lol thats the article ive sourced on post 1 hehe the problem with that ic7 paste the particles are like 40-50Micron particles of diamond, where as 6 1 or .5 micron should yeild much better results got an email back from Logitech today they have no samples in the lab currently but they have offered me a discount so that's positive I'll keep you updated ! Love and Metal Luke
oo look at what ive found http://www.electrospell.com/index.html based in scotland also .. beg email ... sendding ... the diamonds they use at 1 micron ! should be interesting
he was measuring the heat sink temp, not the cpu, what if the mix acted as an insulator? shouldn't the heat sink get hotter?
hehe it could be a bit confusing I dont think measuring HS temp is probably the most accurate way to measure but I'm not sure >< I have looked at a few different ways to test the heat hardOCP/Intels - see page 77 being the best but I don't know weather it is feesable for me as I still need it to be within my capabilities/range so I may use a mix of board temps and thermo-couple however I'm looking to highlight the difference between different pastes so I think that although temps may not be actual real world (offset a few degrees either way based on where temperature is taken) they should be consistent i.e if I take a board reading for the core it shows 60deg for AS5 and then measure with the value again with another paste, I will not be concerned that the value is 55 or 65, what I will be looking at is the delta between the 2 values, I know this certainly isn't Perfect, but its within my means, and as a preliminary test it may spark further interest and further and more detailed testing from other with greater knowledge, i just hope I can start something rolling for the community Love and Metal( and Diamond ?) Luke
Measuring heatsink temp is an incredibly poor idea - as I understand it the temperature of the heatsink will be a non-linear dynamic system, changing the paste will most likely have completely different effects.
