[Review] Indigo Xtreme vs. AS5, MX-2, IC Diamond, Shin-Etsu X23-7783D

[dejanh]

Before the instructions were finalized (or in the form they're in now, I suppose they'll always be changing as they learn more about the enthusiast community and all the complications it brings)....I tried reflow overclocked and overvolted. Unplugged the pump and instant lock-up. Tried again at stock speeds and overvolted, therm-trip kicked in about 3 seconds (~125C...what it does when even throttling won't work) and rebooted the system. In an overclocked system with a pump failure, I really wouldn't worry about the TIM melting again...you'll have incredible instability or hit thermtrip before it gets a chance to melt and drip. Down at stock speeds though, that's another story.

As for how it does subzero, I've been talking to Enerdyne about it and they're curious about it as well...that's how I know it'll be tested really cold soon enough

Just out of curiosity, when you say you tried it overclocked and overvolted what kind of overclock are we talking about here...there are a lot of individuals that run very moderate overclocks in the range of 3.4GHz to 3.8GHz and these will often run on stock settings so "stock" behavior will generally apply which could cause the alloy to go liquid...I've just emailed Enerdyne with a few questions so we'll see what they say.

I'm not personally particularly worried about it. This is more a curiosity thing than anything based on some thoughts I had while testing my first mount

Edit: Another detail I just thought of...if my memory serves me well the R2E from Asus has the ability to disable thermal limits permanently on the CPU and I think some individuals use this setting for god knows what reason. Anyway, you see where I'm going with this...if they have thermal throttling disabled they may burn their chips when installing this ETI. Not really an Enerdyne problem per say but maybe worth mentioning in the instructions for them. I'm not 100% sure on this ability of R2E since I am not longer in the possession of the board but I am 99% sure it had that ability.