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zeropointbug · 04.08.2007, 02:50 PM

Well, to be honest, MOST heatsinks for CPU nowadays are just designs, that's all they are. Lot's just looking cool, decent cooling capabilities, nothing great. Most heatsink design is coming from PC industry now.

Like i said, heatsink design is tricky, as there are several ways you can make it perform: such as LOT'S of airflow, NOISY, and guaranteed to work, with moderate fin count. OR another extreme, like these large tower heatsinks, using heatpies densely around the CPU, then efficiently transferring the heat as vapor to a large set of fins. This method works amazingly well, and better uses a given surface area of fins, than a simple heatspreader, fins design.

What kind of experiment did you do?

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zeropointbug Z-Pinch racer Offline Posts: 3,141 Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: SK, Canada	04.08.2007, 02:50 PM Well, to be honest, MOST heatsinks for CPU nowadays are just designs, that's all they are. Lot's just looking cool, decent cooling capabilities, nothing great. Most heatsink design is coming from PC industry now. Like i said, heatsink design is tricky, as there are several ways you can make it perform: such as LOT'S of airflow, NOISY, and guaranteed to work, with moderate fin count. OR another extreme, like these large tower heatsinks, using heatpies densely around the CPU, then efficiently transferring the heat as vapor to a large set of fins. This method works amazingly well, and better uses a given surface area of fins, than a simple heatspreader, fins design. What kind of experiment did you do? “The modern astrophysical concept that ascribes the sun’s energy to thermonuclear reactions deep in the solar interior is contradicted by nearly every observable aspect of the sun.” —Ralph E. Juergens