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| Take colder temps to CPU | | 0 | 0% |
| Draw heat from CPU | | 5 | 100.00% |
| Neither | | 0 | 0% |
| Dunno | | 0 | 0% |
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| Ultra Techie | What is you thoughts/knowledge about HSF and/or water blocks. Are they primarily to bring colder temps to the CPU or to draw heat away from the CPU. If you have sources please state them.
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| G33K P0W3R!!!! Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: HickTown, California (hesperia)
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| wiki is your friend. Article it helps to transfer the heat from the core to the atmosphere, and prevents a potential meltdown of the core. have you ever noticed that a hot cpu, clogged heatsink, and/or a non functioning fan has decreased performance, but a working setup has great performance? Most enthusiast groups perfer to have liquid cooling as they yeild the greatest cooling performance, or they perfer to have some top-notch heatsinks like the tuniq tower, or the ninja. Personally I perfer the ninja, as my core idles at 20C, and loads at 32C. Thermal transfer compounds also assist in the thermal transfer of heat from the core to the heatsink / block. The most common of these are Arctic silver and what this does is fill in the little pits that are on the bottom of the cooling device and fill in the little pits on the top of the core. It may not seem like there are any, but on a micro level, there are, just imagine trying to tranfer heat from one object to another, and there are a bunch of open areas where there is no contact at all, just a little space of air, and air acts as an insulator. |
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| Multicellular Eukaryote Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Melbourne, Australia
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