Re: Warning put the drill down & do not try this @ home


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Subject: Re: Warning put the drill down & do not try this @ home
Name: Dan Druff
Date: 3/27/2003 6:49:32 PM (GMT-7)
IP Address: 208.181.26.131
In Reply to: Warning put the drill down & do not try this @ home posted by Bob
Message:

I am not drilling the CPU but the heatsink. Wow!!! Am I in America or Iraq? A little physics will tell you that the heatsink is not necessary to cool the CPU. The heat is transferred from the CPU to the heatsink by conduction which is facilitated by the heatsink. Do you know why the fan never really changed much while the heatsink comes in so many shapes and forms? Because it is
inefficient. People keep trying many designs to improve it. Convection transfers the heat to the molecules of the gas surrounding the hot object which is the CPU. Forced convection will move the heat to the surrounding environment which is the job of the fan. The space or gap between the CPU and the heatsink (which is solved by the arctic silver) and the heatsink itself (depending on the design) are the stumbling blocks in this cooling system. There are even water-cooling system with heatsink that show poor performance. It has to be the heatsink.
There is no need to argue try it yourself.

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