Not forgetting heatpipes have that added "bling" factor to the particular portion of the market that requires bling. I've seen ppl buy sinks purely cos they have a heatpipe, irrelevant of reviews or performance. The presence of a shiny pipe-like affair sticking out of a block and going back in at the top appears to extend willies... anyways...
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Everybody has sworn high and low that copper is the best material for radiators (for our uses) yet most automotive rads are made of aluminum for cost and durability reasons. I think Marci could probably give us an idea of how much easier it would be to work with Al instead of Cu when such thin walls are used.
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More or less all heatercores etc shipped from the ThermoChill factory, whether for automotive or PC, are based on brass cores with copper fins afaik these days. As to the machining benefits of aluminium - not my field... that's the metalwork R&D guys who handle the machinery's department. I'll have words with Andy and see what he says on the issue.