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Unread 11-29-2004, 11:27 PM   #22
Moparchris
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Originally Posted by Cathar
Pure copper or pure silver are pretty much the two best metals to use by a long shot over anything else. Steer clear of the alloys. Alloys of any kind tend to rapidly suck on the thermal conductivity of the metals, and even a copper/silver alloy performs worse than copper.

http://www.water-cooling.com/reviews...ator/page1.php

"Why use it? Pure silver is less than 8% better than Pure copper in heat conduction. CuSil is around 23% better than Pure Silver and 33% better than Cu!"

so is that just BS ? - i would've thought so anyway
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