Overview
- Carbice announced on Monday that its Ice Pad is shipping pre‑applied with AMD’s relaunched special‑edition Ryzen 7 5800X3D, giving consumers a factory bundled alternative to thermal paste.
- The company also said Noctua will be the exclusive retail distributor for the Carbice IP90 pads in the DIY market, starting with the NT‑CP1 AM5/4 which Noctua will showcase at Computex 2026 and sell beginning in September 2026.
- Carbice describes the pad’s structure as vertically aligned carbon nanotubes anchored to a thin aluminum backbone and coated with a nanoscale polymer, which it says keeps contact with the CPU stable and avoids paste failure modes like pump‑out, dry‑out, cracking, or delamination.
- The Ice Pad is already available pre‑applied in CyberPowerPC gaming desktops, and Carbice and AMD say the pad aims to simplify installation, keep CPU sockets clean, and extend the usable life of existing AM4/AM5 systems by reducing repeated re‑applications of paste.
- Noctua and Carbice framed the agreement as a long‑term strategic collaboration that includes future product development, a partnership that could shift DIY cooling habits if the pads match their claimed lifetime reliability while pricing and real‑world tests remain to be seen.