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Originally Posted by joeyek
for the tube of a Rad, material is not the key of performence, but for the fins it is.
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Ummm, I would think the tube material is very important. If it cannot transfer heat well then it isn't going to move the heat to the fins well either making the fins useless even if they were silver. By your logic we could use plastic for the tubes and copper for the fins with no loss in performance compared to a copper tubed rad. :shrug:
On the subject of material let's look at this page
http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~dm.../materials.htm and tell me which has better thermal properties of the materials used in HC's?
From my interpretation it is
1) Copper
2) Aluminum
3) Brass