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

[dejanh]

Ok, agreed that comparing TIM reviews is not reliable and posting those therefore did not really illustrate much point. I will be the one to admit my own mistake. What I was trying to illustrate is that the performance is on par at worst which those reviews can somewhat illustrate.

I will now have to go out and get some LMP (well, Ultra) and compare it myself to IX if I want to actually have a reliable test. Considering that they are both based on the idea of pure metal serving as the interface between two surfaces and that IX is not suspended in graphite-copper matrix like LMP but at least based on best available information truly 100% metal interface I would be inclined to say that IX will perform as good as or possibly better than LMP.

As paste goes, most people do not do 5 mounts to average the best mount. They do one mount and however it turns out it turns out. In this case applying IX is more reliable for consistent performance. The same argument can easily be made about LMP as it requires one to "evenly spread" on the IHS.

Considering the extremely low thermal resistance (overall resistance) of IX found here http://indigo-xtreme.com/comparison.html it is extremely unlikely that LMP will have overall resistance lower than this figure. Unfortunately, I cannot back that up as I have no published figures on resistance of LMP.