Re: A Good Heatsink Compound??
hmmm not exactly, I meant people who polish their heatsinks to a mirror finish even though this is non optimal for cooling.
If you need to polish a heatsink to improve cooling, maybe you should think about a better cooler. From my experience the performance main thing is whether the heatsink is milled from a solid block of high quality copper or if it has welded fins it'll be alot worse performance, weight is a good indicator also, more weight more capacity for unwanted heat in the CPU. A possible mistake is to look at size of cooler. Also heatpipes I think maybe a gimmick
with milled copper sink the heat will flow throughout it through the fins easier than having to move between seperate parts welded together. Although I see the industry seems to enjoy promoting all sorts of inferior cooling solutions, maybe they secretly enjoy peoples CPU's being too hot. Globalwin don't appear to have continued making these superior single piece copper sinks anymore also.
Originally posted by Shroomie
If you need to polish a heatsink to improve cooling, maybe you should think about a better cooler. From my experience the performance main thing is whether the heatsink is milled from a solid block of high quality copper or if it has welded fins it'll be alot worse performance, weight is a good indicator also, more weight more capacity for unwanted heat in the CPU. A possible mistake is to look at size of cooler. Also heatpipes I think maybe a gimmick
with milled copper sink the heat will flow throughout it through the fins easier than having to move between seperate parts welded together. Although I see the industry seems to enjoy promoting all sorts of inferior cooling solutions, maybe they secretly enjoy peoples CPU's being too hot. Globalwin don't appear to have continued making these superior single piece copper sinks anymore also.
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