Bye Thermal Grease! Hello... Nano Tubes?

i.Angel

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Hey guys. I was thinking about you overclockers in this forum when I read an article similar to this in PC World. Sounds interesting, what do you guys think?
 

SC7

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Hmm, any external web links? I really can't dig up too much extensive information on this. Sounds intresting though.
 

i.Angel

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I keyworded "carbon nanotubes cooling" into google and got quite a few links. I don't really feel like listing them here, so you check em' out yourself if you want some more info.
 

fade2green514

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the best thing is to eliminate the need for a thermal compound at all... which would be to lap the processor and heatsink. if one cared enough you could just sand the thing down to 5000 grit. i sanded mine to 2500 grit... creating an ultra flat surface and almost eliminating the need for any thermal paste at all.
 

Arm_Pit

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i.Angel said:
5000 grit? 2500 grit? Sorry I don't understand...
He is talking about sandpaper, Sandpaper is measures in "grit" the bigger the number the more fine the sandpaper is.

The way "grit" is measures is actually how many little peices of sand are in each inch, or maybe centimeter, I'm not 100% sure, but its one of those units.
 

Slackr89

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Arm_Pit2 said:
He is talking about sandpaper, Sandpaper is measures in "grit" the bigger the number the more fine the sandpaper is.

The way "grit" is measures is actually how many little peices of sand are in each inch, or maybe centimeter, I'm not 100% sure, but its one of those units.

isn't it in micrometers? it's that 'µm' unit thingy.
 

Clutch

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i.Angel said:
That's a nanometer. I wasn't saying that that's what they use to measure the grit.
Wrong.

The greek letter Mu (µ) is used as a prefix, meaning micro-. So, that means that a µm is a micron or a micrometer (both sayings are acceptable).
SC7 said:
That's the "Process size" of the transistors which is measured in nanometers.
Process size wasn't always measured in nanometers. Back a few years ago, you would always see the process size written as .13µ, .18µ or .25µ and so on.
 
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SC7

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Clutch said:
Wrong.

The greek letter Mu (µ) is used as a prefix, meaning micro-. So, that means that a µm is a micron or a micrometer (both sayings are acceptable).

Process size wasn't always measured in nanometers. Back a few years ago, you would always see the process size written as .13µ, .18µ or .25µ and so on.
Yea, true, which is 130, 180 and 250nm respectively. They used to be even 350nm.
 

bflat450

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Nanotubes?? Are you guys talking about liquid cooling? There are some pretty good kits out for that but they'll cost you about $300 USD. Still thermal paste is needed but these cooling systems are crazy. Here is a website that has steps on how to install it and shows how it works.


http://reviews.cnet.com/4520-11319_7-6291064-1.html


There are videos on about 4/7 of the steps. With this cooling system you could really go crazy OCing without worrying about overheating.
 

sniperchang

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bflat450 said:
Nanotubes?? Are you guys talking about liquid cooling? There are some pretty good kits out for that but they'll cost you about $300 USD. Still thermal paste is needed but these cooling systems are crazy. Here is a website that has steps on how to install it and shows how it works.


http://reviews.cnet.com/4520-11319_7-6291064-1.html


There are videos on about 4/7 of the steps. With this cooling system you could really go crazy OCing without worrying about overheating.

How did you associate Nanotubes to watercooling? You want to use tubes that's 4 Nanometers in diamiter? I beilive what it actualy is is that Carbon Nanotube can reach all parts of the uneven CPU survace and Heatsink.

When you look at these surfaces in a Microscope, there are canions and holes. That's why we use thermal paste, to fill those holes in between the heatsink and CPU. I think what nanotubing does is those little tiny tubes can reach those crevices and canions and conduct the heat without needing thermal paste. Something like that.

EDIT: Wikipedia has some info, have a look at this section.

Apperently nanotubes can be used to make transistors too, and many more things.
 
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