What helps a good thermal compound to become a great product? In the younger days of computing one would have automatically have said ‘lower temperatures’ and that would be that. However the industry has matured, as such consumers are demanding more and more applications for their money. For example conductivity is a question; ergo will it conduct an electric current? Next is viscosity, how liquid is it? Is it suitable for delicate tasks such as PWM and GPU applications? These and many other questions need to be asked for all contenders to the throne of ‘Thermal Compound king’.
Innovation Cooling have used a rather unique method by using neither silver nor a form of ceramic, but instead synthetic diamond. You have read correctly; seven carat synthetic diamond! A rather unique method of using crushed diamond into a paste which is then applied directly to the CPU or component in question.
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