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Unread 10-29-2002, 07:56 PM   #5
redleader
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If you have a CPU with a 80C potential, how can you end with a differance so tiny?
What? With good copper you're looking at maybe 10C difference, maybe a good deal less with higher flow systems. Then some of that is in the CPU/metal interface and still more is in the core itself (heat still must be conducted through the outside of the core).

Just look at Cu vs. Al. ~2 times the conductivity, but a good Al block will be with a few C of everything else.
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