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Unread 11-29-2004, 11:40 PM   #23
jaydee
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Originally Posted by Moparchris
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
That is an extreamly optomositc statment. CuSil is 72% Silver and 28% Copper.

It can't be better than pure Silver. How can you add a metal with LOWER thermal properties to Silver and come out with a alloy with higher thermal properties?
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