[syberspy9]

well there is a lot of heat sinks out there now but i find there is a lot of heat sinks with thick fins.

we have all seen a frezzer or fridge or AC rright but if u look closer they heave heat sinks and man are they thin like paper thin almost. this is so they will disapate heat faster (but they do heat up faster also).
so what is with all the heat sink makers out there why do they make them the way they do?

[dead_man311]

if its thiner they save money on making it so they can charge th same amount and make a bigger profit

one thing i like then thin but not too thin it will heat up faster than it being thinker but the thin disapates the heat faster. once that thick one gets heated up it takes alot more to cool it down

only bad thing about a thin one is there usally big some motherboards and cases cant fit them so you got to use a smaller thick fin to fit or there is alway water which i cant trust in my system i hope that sums a lil up if anyone else has more info just add it maybe ill learn somethnig new

[rhino56]

i think that if they made cpu heatsinks with that thin of fins it would be very hard to handle.
have you ever bumped one of the ac units ? the fins are so fragile and bend so easy.
can you imagine what the thing would look like after installing it onto the cpu? grabbing, pushing, pulling, bumping and oops slip of the screwdriver. lol you might as well put a wad of aluminum foil on there and call it a day.
howeverif it came in a protected case around it you might see a better cooling temp from it.
but the fins seem to be pretty thin on the sp 94 copper heatsink.
i dont think being thinner with that copper one would help all that much.
but its thinking of new and beter ways all the time that does make things better, so make one and try it, let us know.

[syberspy9]

ya i mean i dont want them as thin as paper but thin i mean have u sean some of the hs man there like 1cm thick im trhinking 1or 2 mm thick but ill try it soon as i go rip off a fridge from the dump lol

[MattCoz]

What the? What heatsinks have that thick of fins?

Most good heatsinks do have thin fins, often less than 1mm.

[rhino56]

Originally posted by MattCoz
What the? What heatsinks have that thick of fins?

Most good heatsinks do have thin fins, often less than 1mm.

yeah they arent all that thick, the good copper ones look really thin. but they have to be able to be touched without wrinkling up.

[syberspy9]

sorry im just not good with mm cm ect. i just want them thin as a paper back cover of a book

[MattCoz]

thin enough?

[voodoomelon]

Yeah MattCoz,
Not sure what the problem is.
Syberspy@school, virtually all Thermalright heatsinks have fins less than 1mm thick, and are inter-connected at each end to make them stonger.

Thermalright

[larrymoencurly]

The closest I've seen to fins that thin are the ones on this Ajigo heatsink, but they're probably at least .015", or at least twice as thick as refrigerator or A/C fins, and seem difficult to damage. AMD provides a similar Ajigo, the MF033-032, with some of their retail boxed CPUs, and it's rated for faster Athlons than the one supplied with the XP1800+ (CoolerMaster DP5-6i31D), despite being smaller (60x60x30mm, exluding fan), vs. 75x60x41mm.

I'm no expert, but even thinner fins would probably help because my A/C has really thin fins so thin that they can be smashed with just a strong water spray (and restraightened with just a regular comb), and each fin has tabs punched out to increase the surface area even more.

I think the reason that most heatinks have thicker fins because it's cheaper to extrude all the fins in one piece than to insert individual fins into a thick chunk of metal and press, glue, or braze them.

[syberspy9]

ya i geuss there thin enuff i was stuped lol i fogot all about the thermaltakes hahaha see i was looking at there super orbe i bought for 5$ used and the fins are like close to a cm thick lol sorry i had a brain fart