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04-28-2010
 Remember Snake oil salesmen well this stuff is total garbage
I got this TIM on the reviews claiming it had the best overall heat transfer of spreadable TIM''s on the market. first let me point out that this stuff is a total pain in the butt to spread. you have to go so slowly or it won''t stick and balls up on the supplied brush. I first tried this on my gtx 275. absolute nightmare getting it to spread across the gpu surface. but eventually I got it on there. fired it up and my temps shot up BIG TIME. went from 44c idle on MX-3 to 56c idle with liquid ultra. so I ran a benchmark run to see if it needed to "burn in" despite nothing stating that in what they call instructions. my gpu temp used to top out at 65c was now reaching 90c+ when I shut vantage down 23 seconds in the first run. miffed I removed the card and cleaned the gpu with the one and only cleaning wipe supplied with this stuff. It did work well for cleaning the Ultra off, but was no longer useable after. I figured it might not work well with GPU''s so I tried it on my i7 920 clocked to 3.3GHz before with the h50 my idle main core temps with MX-3 were 22-3c and LINX temps were 57-59c 20 run stable. after I applied this TIM my idle temp shot up to 30c and linx temps passed 70c and were steadily climbing when I shut linx down. needless to say this was a huge letdown. Also since Coollabratory saw fit to only include a single cleaning wipe and neither rubbing alcohol or Arcticlean would fully remove the residue from my cpu I had to take the abrasive pad they included to scour my cpu face to remove the remnants of this gloop..
in short don''t waste your money on this. stick to your trusted TIM instead of this junk.
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04-22-2010
 Very good TIM better than most pastes
I was skeptical at first when i read the reviews about Indigo Xtreme. Then I read the reflow proccess i was even more leary about it. but after several friends reported significant temp reductions on both air and water coolers i gave it a try. Installation of this TIM is unlike any other on the market and the reflow proccess in an i7 makes you want to cringe when the temps top out at 90c but its only for a few seconds then the temps drop rapidly and stablilize. After the reflow my idle temps with an H50 cooler on a Lapped 920 C0 @ 3.8GHz in a 72f room were 23c a full 4c less than before. Load temps on linx topped out at 62c when before it would hit 70c. Thats an 8c drop in the main core temp! Just know that this TIM is NOT (even states it in the instructions) designed for cooler like the stock intel cooler, or direct touch heat pipe units. if you plan to upgrade to this TIM make sure you are getting a high quality heatsink or you will get zero benefit from this product. |
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