Wednesday, August 12, 2009

Homebrewed Diamond Grease to dissipate your Processor

Every computer tuner or even a PC hard core gamer knows that cooling down the processor means not only the promise of fast performances but also avoid crashes and, ultimately, damages to the CPU, fans, and other components subjected to stress in high temperature conditions.
Jared Bouck at Inventgeek.com developed his own homebrew compound to cool down the processor and it happens that his product works better than the most high end cooling compound in the market!

Jared's article is so concise, simple and precise in the the description to compete with a recipe worth of the best chef cookbook. However, instead of preparing whatsoever delicacy for our taste, it explain how to bake your own diamond grease and apply it to the processor so that the heat is effectively conducted to the heat sink.
Regular compounds are currently made of silver suspended in silicon grease. Silver has a thermal conductivity of 429W/m K while diamond has 900-2320 W/m K. Obviously some production reasons, like acquiring large amounts of pure diamond powders, are retaining products based on diamond from the consumer market. However, given that you're own homebrewed production such problems shouldn't concern you.
Just check the interesting article for detailed instruction. however, in order to entice you in trying out this DIY product I'll post here below the performance comparison between the diamond grease and a high end commercially available compound. Again, see the article for test details.
System Idling
System Max load
Arctic Silver with a fresh application
42c
57c
Arctic Silver with 2 week cure
39c
54c
Diamond Grease with a fresh application
29c
38c

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