Diamond Thermal Paste! 10c drop from as5!, DIY thermal paste with diamond powder
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 Dec 7 2007, 01:42 PM
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Elite
14,576 posts Joined: May 2006 From: Sarawak   
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It is known that diamond is the best heat conductor. Imagine a heatsink using diamond...... Intel is using that, because of the good conductor but also because they can see through to look at their CPU..... it was mentioned in one of the reviews.....
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Dec 7 2007, 04:30 PM
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Elite
14,576 posts Joined: May 2006 From: Sarawak
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QUOTE(lohwenli @ Dec 7 2007, 02:31 PM) A whole heatsink made of diamond? LOL. Not a whole heatsink la. Probably a thin plate, like you said.....  Highly unlikely. Maybe just a thin conduction plate (more like superconduction). Diamond's refractive index is too high to really see though it without the images being distorted. Not to mention that even a heatsink made from industrially grown diamond would cost more than an entire intel factory, and finding a natural diamond big enough is    Look here (page 6): http://tweakers.net/reviews/740/1/chip-mag...m-pagina-1.html |
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