ICD 7 Results Thread

[IC Diamond 7]

this is the hardwarelogic list of pressure film testers. If I have missed anybody let me know.

stinger608
theburan
RAID
Yellowhello
polobunny
simple_inhibition
gvblake22

I had my Telecon with the pressure film rep.

He Recommends the test be done dry, basically what we are looking for are mechanical inconsistencies and by filling in the voids it tends to obscure the contact issues.

Relative humidity is not a problem and can be ignored for our tests.

Room temperature should be noted.

CPU should be room temp

A careful clamping sequence should be adequate.

10 - 15 min exposure for the film should work fine - Once you reach max exposure/pressure the film stops further rupturing of the color nodules. as long as exposure is not more than 24hours nothing else has to be noted

Question. IHS sample cut size, I am looking at around 1.2 inches square per sample or maybe 1.5 in. to make it easier to get a full print. I do not want to go too much larger as I would like to send as many test samples as I can to each participant. Will 1.5 Inch square do it for you guys?

We will do the full color mapping analysis on each one. It will take me a day or so to get organized on mailing,tracking results method so samples will probably go out Friday.

Added what we will get from the analysis

With the Topaq® Advanced Pressure Analysis
System, statistical data and detailed digital
visuals can be extracted from Pressurex®
pressure indicating sensor films.
Topaq® enables a wealth of statistical information and high
resolution visuals to be extracted from Pressurex® - greatly
enhancing the ability of the sensor film to define pressure
distribution and magnitude. Vital statistics like total force,
average pressure, total square inches of contact and standard
deviation can be determined with ±4% accuracy using
Topaq®’s advanced analysis capabilities. Topaq® can also
render histogramic and population statistics on
user-defined regions of interest.
Features
• 2D pseudocolor display of pressure distribution
• 3D topographical view
• Graphical display of pressure data
• Graphical view of data along a user-defined line
• Detailed pressure statistics

I have a total of 27 from Anandtech, hardwarelogic, overclockers.com and xtremesystems with the multiples probably hit 50 to 60 covering a full range of systems, coolers. A pretty good sample in my book.

I'll do a scan of the raw result noting the sink and setup before I send it out for a comparison to the pressure mapped analysis

[stinger608]

Awesome!!! This will be a great test, with many different brands of not only coolers, but chips, and mother boards as well!!!

When we send the samples back, and you may want to request this from the other participating sites, we should include:

Ambient temps
Cooler used
Chip used
motherboard
film size
exact length of time used.

This should be a very, very interesting test!!!!

[Reloadron]

Originally Posted by stinger608

Awesome!!! This will be a great test, with many different brands of not only coolers, but chips, and mother boards as well!!!

When we send the samples back, and you may want to request this from the other participating sites, we should include:

Ambient temps
Cooler used
Chip used
motherboard
film size
exact length of time used.

This should be a very, very interesting test!!!!

You guys are into a really good thing here. This has a hell of alot of potential.

The only thing I would change for simplicity in compiling the data is using a set time used. I guess in theory something like 10 min (a guess pulled from thin air) would be good.

What needs attention this needs to be done religiously by all in the same manner.

Just my take...
Ron

[gvblake22]

Sweet, I'm in! Seems like a 1.5" x 1.5" square piece should cover the IHS of a processor...

[stinger608]

Originally Posted by Reloadron

The only thing I would change for simplicity in compiling the data is using a set time used. I guess in theory something like 10 min (a guess pulled from thin air) would be good.

What needs attention this needs to be done religiously by all in the same manner.

Just my take...
Ron

excellent Point Ron!!!! Your correct, there should be a specific time set on this test, and used by everybody through out all sites.

As you mentioned IC, 10-15min would be plenty of time.
You set the time, 10 minutes, or say 15 minutes?
But be sure to concur this with all of the other sites as well

[IC Diamond 7]

I am trying to consolidate results here so I went through the post results and this is what I came up with so far with about 50% reporting. I am only looking at the load temps. Some were averaged, some were interpolated. I am looking for corrections understated/overstated, missed or double entry. please review when you get a chance and suggest changes where differences occur. Thanks

dedgar 0 theburan 1 RangerXLT8 -8 Yellowhello -2 drew and not u -1.5 Jokerswild -4 RangerXLT8 -5 RangerXLT8 -3 Quakindude -4 Quakindude -3.5 RAID -1 RAID -2 polobunny -3 simple_inhibition -5 screwballl -9 onebxr -5 wtcnbrwndo4u -9 stinger608 -5

[theburan]

I still think that I may have used to little ic7d when I put mine one... I'm gonna have to pull out my cpu later to today to test a mobo I have coming, so when I put it back, I'll probably just put whatever I have left in my first tube of ic7d onto the chip and see what happens, lol.

[dedgar]

Originally Posted by dedgar

E6600 OC'd to 3.33ghz
Gigabyte GA-P965-DS3
Mushkin DDR2 1066 2X512mb
Zalman 9500
MS XP 32 bit
F@H 5.91 SMP

I installed the IC Diamond & Carat just like they asked us to in the instructions. A pea sized blob in the middle of the cpu.
It has been running now for a little over an hour. The temps are the same as with the previous TIM I had on here.
44C
Verified with two different programs:
Gigabytes own Easy Tune 5
CPUIDs Hardware Monitor
My previous TIM was Zalman Super Thermal Grease ZM-STG1

I've upgraded this system and wanted to report what is going on with it.
Changed the mobo to a GA-G33M-S2L, cpu is a Q6600 and the memory is now A-Data DDR2 800.
When I took the heatsink off to clean up the E6600 that was in there, I noticed that the TIM layer was very thick. That is probably why the temps I reported didn't change for the better. I am glad that IC7 does so well at thermal transfer as I probably would have had a fried CPU with something else or at least reduced clocks.
This was the 2nd system to get the IC7. The first I tried to spread the TIM and this time I used a pea sized blob. (Probably a little too big a blob.)
I changed out the mobo, CPU and memory. Put everything back together (with a little less TIM this time).
The Q6600 is OC'd to 3.555GHZ (9X395). Voltage in the BIOS is set to 1.4 volts. Everest tells me that the CPU core volts are 1.28 and a temp of 53C. Gigabytes Easy Tune 5 give CPU volts as 1.3 and CPU temp as 53C.
Currently running a F@H WU 3043 (1461 pts) as my stress test with 7m 15s avg frame times for 2902 PPD.
So I've got that Q6600 pretty well cranked with a less than optimal HS (Zalman 9500) and the temps are well under 60C.
That's my update.

[IC Diamond 7]

For those getting the pressure film next week and want to get an Idea what a raw data test looks like.

Innovation Cooling's Diamond 7 TIM test results - Page 10 - XtremeSystems Forums

[theburan]

Looks like some cool stuff! Can't wait to get my hands on it, lol...