Silver for cold plates??????

[The Wicker Man]

Hello, my place of employment has given everyone 1 troy ounce of .999% pure silver coin's for Christmas the last 2 years.
I was just thinking, how might having them melted then making small diam. .002-.005 inch thick plates to place between CPU and HS work???

Or maybe, placing a pelt between the HS and the silver, with the silver on the CPU core..............


Any thoughts, or am I just insane?????.....:eek:

[JFettig]

between heatsink and cpu would cause the cpu to be crushed because of how the clip is designed, You would need a thicker plate to do a cold plate like a peltier, They make silver cold plates, but they are thin, i wouldnt use them, Copper is good enough i think

[mw521]

You need to talk to Silversink Sam, he be the man with silver. You can pick up those little ingots on ebay fairly cheap, I got several of them from there.

[flapperhead]

the difference between copper and silver"s thermal conductivity is not much. the benefits are not worth the extra money.unless of course, you just want something unique and different

[Über~PhLuBB]

Even though the thermal properties of silver are more efficient than copper, it's still two more thermal interfaces the heat has to travel through (INTO the silver from the core, then OUT of the silver into the HSF). Any benefits you would otherwise recieve would probably be negated by the additional hardships the heat would encounter on it's way into the air. =)

But hey, chances are what overclocking is all about! Find another way to mount your HSF so you don't crust your core, and give it a whirl.

[The Wicker Man]

Maybe I will just leave well enough alone............heh

Or maybe I will try something with my celerons.....