What is indigo-xs-intel-115x

[Cheers!]

I saw Daz added this to his store. What is is? I read through the description, says it replaces the thermal grease...

Is this a pad? A sticker? How do you apply it onto the CPU? Is it for delided CPUs only?

[bungwirez]

Its fancy thermal interface for CPU. Its got a fairly complicated installation that involves overheating your CPU to - for lack of better word - weld your heatsink to the CPU.

[DazMode]

It is extreme version of Indigo Xtreme.

Previous gen Indigo was 20W rating, this one doubles it 40W.




Item for die hard overclockers.

[bungwirez]

... Indeed.

[Bartacus]

I use the Indigo XS, and I don't recommend it for the faint of heart. My install didn't go anything like the instructions said it would, therefore I lost 5 years off my life and swore never to attempt the install again! Crap scared the hell outta me!

[DJRiful]

I use the Indigo XS, and I don't recommend it for the faint of heart. My install didn't go anything like the instructions said it would, therefore I lost 5 years off my life and swore never to attempt the install again! Crap scared the hell outta me!

What happened?

[Bartacus]

What happened?

It just unnerved me to roast my CPU with Prime95 WITHOUT cooling of any kind. Plus, in the directions there was supposed to be a pattern to the temps during the "frying" process. Mine didn't follow the pattern at all, so I got rather scared. The temps just jumped to 98C and stayed there. Thus I wasn't really sure when to STOP cooking the CPU. Maybe I guessed right though, since my temps seem pretty decent. If I had to do it again, I'd stick to MX-4 paste, since I didn't see an amazing temperature drop with the Indigo stuff.

[DazMode]

While I would not bother with this for myself, multitudes of people are raving about this product.

[SeeThruHead]

I've used this twice. Installation and temp pattern went smoothly and the performance was good. But removing it from my copper block and cpu ihs was incredibly hard. I spoke to ek who also sells this stuff and they said that shouldn't have happened, that I had ruptured the bag or something. Anyway, I would only recommend this if you rarely ever remove your cpu cooler.

[gdesmo]

Hmmm, what to do ?

[bungwirez]

those from your home dentistry kit?

[gdesmo]

Yup, but I forgot the big rusty pliers !