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Originally posted by jaydee116
In water cooling you make a thin base so the heat doesn't spread out before it can be cooled, but air cooling isn't as efficent so you have to get that heat spread out on a MUCH larger surface area so it can be displaced by the less efficent air. Thats why air coolers are so big.
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I couldn't have said it better!
If one looks at the latest round of DIY waterblocks, we can see that the fins/pins are relatively small. In my block, the fins are 4mm tall.
As for a tool, you might want to check out Kryotherm, which you can download for free at
www.kryotherm.ru
You can then try all the variations of straight fins heatsinks, with pretty much any fluid, wether the fluid is a gas or a liquid. You also have the option of two flow types: across, or from-the-top-down.