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Yeah, I have noticed it appears in some of the PC enthusiast materials, I wonder why it has not received more widespread industrial acceptance. Obviously it is
by mmagin 9y ago
Yeah, I have noticed it appears in some of the PC enthusiast materials, I wonder why it has not received more widespread industrial acceptance. Obviously it is very abrasive, but I think tiny synthetic diamonds aren't that expensive. Maybe it's so far down the scale of diminishing returns to not be worth it?
- tristor 9y agoDiamond is used in some of the higher end thermal pastes and they do perform marginally better than alternatives, but the problem is that they tend to cause micro-abrasions caused by the high-speed vibrations ICs do. This isn't too big of a deal when you're mounting a cooling block to an IHS surface, but if you're doing direct-to-die cooling (which many hardcore enthusiasts do) it can spell disaster.
- Florin_Andrei 9y agoWell, boron nitride should be almost as hard and abrasive as diamond. I'm guessing it's just the law of diminishing returns that works against diamond here.