Question about IC Diamond Thermal Paste

[powerplayer75]

So a few months ago when I built my PC, I bought IC Diamond from eBay but when I recently took my heatsink off to put on a new cooler I found that it hardened really badly, as in I had to forcefully pry the heatsink off my CPU and it smelled terrible (I didn't intentionally smell it). I don't feel like thermal paste should harden that easily and so I'm wondering if I may have gotten scammed into a fake thermal paste with an IC Diamond sticker on the tube.

[Space Reptile]

yea that is really odd , how old is the tc? 

 

i personally use arctic MX2 and it never hardened, in years of usage 

[powerplayer75]

27 minutes ago, Space Reptile said:

yea that is really odd , how old is the tc? 

 

i personally use arctic MX2 and it never hardened, in years of usage 

 

It shipped sometime in June and I replaced the heatsink in the middle of August.

[Space Reptile]

wierd, very very wierd

[powerplayer75]

6 minutes ago, Space Reptile said:

wierd, very very wierd

Do you think I should buy new thermal paste?

[Space Reptile]

yea , get a tube of mx2 , never dissapointed me 

[powerplayer75]

Ok thank you, I will get that. 

[ThomasD]

IC Diamond is thicker out of the tube compared to most other TIMs, not surprised it seemed so stiff after use. But if you had to pry it apart then it was still doing it's job maintaining solid contact between the two surfaces.  Unless your temps were bad it sound like it was the real deal.