Do heatsinks conduct electricity?

Do heatsinks conduct electricity?

  • Yes

    Votes: 22 88.0%

  • No

    Votes: 3 12.0%
  • Total voters
    25
haha well i thought they wouldnt be. because its like a funny metal and used in electronics.

so i thought it was probably non conductive
 
if you find any kind of metal thats unconductive, let me know lol... its not like you can infuse plastic and metal, lol
 
well now i know.

i have found a solution anyway.

thanks for making fun of my noobness ahhaha :D jk.
 
2 vs 11. hmmmm. :D

the reason i thought that it might not be is cos its like a heaps light weird alloy thats used in electronics so i thought that it probably would be coated in something so that it wouldnt conduct electricity. but anyway :D
 
you know, there is a very quick and simple way to test this...

i voted yes although i dont know for sure. most heatinks are made of copper and copper is used to conduct electricity in most wiring situations... the only thing that works better is silver as far as i know.
 
If you dont want it to be conductive, you can annodize it... Just dont scratch the first layer off...
 
all metals conduct electricity, just in varying amounts.
the fact its lite has nothing to do with it, nor does the fact its used in a pc.

its lite because they are usually aluminum coated in copper. you don't shocked from touching it because nothing is suppling electricity to it.

as for the other statement in the post, if you dropped it on your motherboard with the power on, then yes, it could have caused a short and ruined the motherboard. if the pc still works, then it either didn't make contact between to points to cause a short, or the short just wasn't enough to damage the motherboard.

-dirty, i'm pretty sure that gold beats silver in heat conductivity.
but, a solid gold heatsink wouldn't exactly be cheap :P

though there is a gold plated one now: http://www.frostytech.com/articleview.cfm?articleID=636
 
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