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Originally Posted by |kbn|
I was asking is the lower specific heat and advantage or not?
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The only effect specific heat capacity of the block material has is to vary the rate at which the equilibrium temperature gradient is reached. In other words, a block made from a material with a higher specific heat capacity will not react so quickly to changes in thermal output. So if you suddenly increase cpu usage, it will take longer to reach the new equilibrium temperature than if the block were made of a material of lower specific heat capacity. However, the equilibrium temperature will be the SAME regardless.
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