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Originally Posted by Jabo
Oh, you are as always perfectly correct.
I just followed what is written under your nick, that's all.
I concluded you are not interested in explanation since theory and design are worthless waste of time.
Since you want to her explanation afterall I will be glad to provide it.
It is siml misunderstanding and me employing some shortcuts in expresing myslef thus not bing orecise and clear about what I wanted to say.
Surfaces of a cold plate in contact with TEC on one side and CPUs die on the other should be as flat as possible since thermal energy source is flat and planar.
I was thinking about SIDES of cold plates and 3D shape of them.
Apologies for inprecise thoughts expressing.
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Ah, I see. I am working on the cold plate of my TEC block and in fact it isn't just a regular rectangle plate like many use. I think there is something to what your getting at but I need to run some tests to make sure.
It seems to me the more extra copper in the cold plate the more area for secondary heat/cold loss. If you make your cold plate as small as possible and romove as much "fluff" copper then it would perform a little better by removing secondary losses (kinda like making a good die simulator). A standard TEC is 50mm square (or 40mm), so why would you want a cold plate much bigger than that if the CPU die area is less than that (other than mounting considerations of course)?
Also it isn't that I am not interested in design and theory, I am just not interested in theory that cannot be implemented and substaniated and turned into fact. All my design are based on theory just like everything else. Only thing that seperates my theory is I actually test it with a working prototype to make sure my theory is correct. I try to take my theory, make it happen, and then talk about it. Theory holds more water if you have something "actual" to base it on.
There is TONS of misinformation running around the water cooling forums because people spread their "theory" around with out anything to back it up. Causes considerable problems.
But I digress. Sorry for being a pain in the ass.
