Oh right ease of manufacture and all that!, I thought you were gonna give me the "Alu gives up heat better than Cu" speel
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I dont think putting a HS on the back of the CPU would do alot, but it's something I've been meaning to do to my GPU for an age!, GPU is actualy mounted so there is some conduction, the air under the CPU socket makes it pointless IMO :shrug: ...
The NB would benifit too...
I thought about putting a small quiet(40mm/50mm) fan under the mobo drawing air under and venting through the mobo mounting panel/tray. do you think it's worth it?, would it cool the PCB/components down worth a damn?...