Best heatsink material?

[Bodaggit23]

Most likely if they made a Diamond cooler, it would just be the contact
pad that was Diamond, and the rest would be made up of Aluminum,
Copper or such.? That I could see being feasible.

 

[yuki953]

Most likely if they made a Diamond cooler, it would just be the contact
pad that was Diamond, and the rest would be made up of Aluminum,
Copper or such.? That I could see being feasible.

reading through the posts its obviouse people dont know what im gettin at with the diamond.

except him,

duh its imposible to make fins out of diamond, and it is expensive, but it will get heat out of that processor faster then Bill Clinton can get a stiffy...

ill make a pretty refined picture for you...

or even, a copper brick, with a diamond square where you touch the processor, SOULY for the purpose of getting that heat OFF of that proccesor

 

[bomberboysk]

reading through the posts its obviouse people dont know what im gettin at with the diamond.

except him,

duh its imposible to make fins out of diamond, and it is expensive, but it will get heat out of that processor faster then Bill Clinton can get a stiffy...

ill make a pretty refined picture for you...

or even, a copper brick, with a diamond square where you touch the processor, SOULY for the purpose of getting that heat OFF of that proccesor

Diamond isnt that much better than copper or silver as a heat conductor... and if anyone could even afford something with a chunk of diamond on it they could afford a watercooling system that would be much more effective. The limiting factor in any cooling system is not so much the heat conductor the fan is produced from, but the fact that air can only dissapate so much heat.

Measuring at:
900 - 2320 W/m*K
Making this the BEST!!!! over topping the 2nd one by almost 2.5 times, at the least. and almost 5 times, at the most.

...This isnt correct for copper+aluminum.... a hybird heatsink would be limited by the lowest conductor of heat which is aluminum.

 

[konsole]

the heat conduction capability of a material probably has alot to do with its density. Diamonds and metal really dense and good conducters of heat, wood and fabric very porous and not good conducters of heat.

 

[m3incorp]

Whew! You will get lots of different answers on that question.

You have to include such things as if you are overclocking, CPU, consider case size, since there are some huge heat sinks out there.

edited.

What would you recommend for heat-sinks for these sockets

• INTEL LGA 771
• INTEL LGA 775
• INTEL LGA 1366
• AMD AM2
• AMD AM2+

 

[yuki953]

the heat conduction capability of a material probably has alot to do with its density. Diamonds and metal really dense and good conducters of heat, wood and fabric very porous and not good conducters of heat.

Material ↓ Thermal conductivity W/(m·K)
Silica Aerogel 0.004 - 0.04
Air 0.025
Wood 0.04 - 0.4
Hollow Fill Fibre Insulation Polartherm 0.042
Alcohols and oils 0.1 - 0.21
Polypropene 0.12 [1]
Mineral oil 0.138
Rubber 0.16
LPG 0.23 - 0.26
Cement, Portland 0.29
Epoxy (silica-filled) 0.30
Epoxy (unfilled) 0.59
Water (liquid) 0.6
Thermal grease 0.7 - 3
Thermal epoxy 1 - 7
Glass 1.1
Soil 1.5
Concrete, stone 1.7
Ice 2
Sandstone 2.4
Stainless steel 12.11 ~ 45.0
Lead 35.3
Aluminium 220 (pure)/ 120--180 (alloys)
Gold 318
Copper 380
Silver 429
Diamond 900 - 2320
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