What are the advantages of a copper heat sink versus aluminium ones??
They look le cooler.
>>53470876
http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/183135-29-copper-aluminium
>>53470876
Copper moves heat better but you need a higher cfm fan to cool it because they tend to hang onto the heat they accumulate
>>53470918
Bullshit you /g/ doesnt know shit bout physics. You may need less cfm as the dt over heatsink is lower -> dt between heatsink/air is higher so heat transfer is better you arrogant dumb piece of shit /g/
Copper dissipates heat faster, brass dissipates heat slightly faster, gold a lot faster, but well yeah gold is expensive. Water dissipates heat a lot slower.
>>53470918
RETARD ALERT
>>53472966
>gold a lot faster
>a lot is slightly now
Can you retards stop spreading bullshit
>>53473055
>>53471953
So easily offended..
Why dont superconductors are not used to build heatsinks?
>>53470876
Copper transfers heat more easily than aluminum.
/thread
Copper has antimicrobial properties.
>>53471953
Copper 401 W/(m*K)
Aluminium 236 W/(m*K)
source Wikipedia Do 5 minutes of research faggot
also aluminum is much easier to work with compared to copper so the production is cheaper (especially of thin sheets)
>>53470876
Copper is heavier, so it will sink faster.
>>53473217
>dont not used
dude.
>>53470876
Copper is more valuable than aluminum.
>>53470876
I didn't know you could be this retarded.
>>53470876
they look 1337er and are more expensive.
whereas the aluminium ones can be skived and extruded easily and can disapate the heat your shitty meme overclocking bullshit CPU makes generally just as fine.
>>53470876
copper comes mostly from Chile, the greatest country ever.
>>53470876
Generally, for similar designs, they perform better than Al heat sinks.
But copper is more expensive, and if you wanted to, a poorly designed Cu heat sink can cool worse than a well designed Al one.
So, other than the looks, just base a purchase decision on tests.
>>53470876
nothin'
>>53472966
>water = slow
what even
copper is better but its more expensive. which is why there isn't many all copper heat sinks.
a cooler the size of a noctua d15 made of 100% copper would be double the price of a regular d15 with copper heat pipes and aluminum base and fins.
>>53470876
They sell for more when you scrap them.
>>53470876
Last time I checked
Copper base to extract heat faster, and aluminium fins to dissipate heat faster.
>>53470893
pretty much it
>>53473078
>Offended
>Correcting
So easily hurp a durp.
