silver heatsinks?

[Dubbin1]

You want a diamond HS? Go steal the Hope Diamond....the largest Diamond ever! and PRICELESS!!! Then you'd have a computer that everyone would be jealous of!

At 45.52 carats it is not the largest diamond ever. It is however the world's largest deep blue diamond

 

[Crash893]

what is the largest diamond?

 

[Dubbin1]

Im not sure but I do know of one that is over 95 carats. I forgot to mention the the Hope diamond was 112 3/16 carat before it was hacked up

 

[Crash893]

http://www.worlds-largest-diamonds.com/

 

[ziah]

actually tyrex, diamonds arent really rare. there controlled by a cartel so the price is kept high. its been said that there are so many cut diamonds in storage that if released to the open market the price of all diamonds would be so low they could not even be sold for a penny per carrat. and big ones like the hope diamond would be worth thier artistic/craftmanship/historical value. damn i love the discovery channel tidbits. who would ever think i would have needed that information one day.

now heres a question. science can create chemically identical diamonds for a fraction of the price (these are usually cubes and arent usable for pretty things like jewerly). would they have the same cooling properties as natures stuff?

 

[TyRex]

actually tyrex, diamonds arent really rare. there controlled by a cartel so the price is kept high. its been said that there are so many cut diamonds in storage that if released to the open market the price of all diamonds would be so low they could not even be sold for a penny per carrat. and big ones like the hope diamond would be worth thier artistic/craftmanship/historical value. damn i love the discovery channel tidbits. who would ever think i would have needed that information one day.

now heres a question. science can create chemically identical diamonds for a fraction of the price (these are usually cubes and arent usable for pretty things like jewerly). would they have the same cooling properties as natures stuff?

yes, that is true(damn de beers). I should've said its a shame they are so expensive.

 

[Eclypsyr]

Eh, I'm not sure about not being able to get diamond flat enough. I mean, they do some pretty smooth laser cuts for wedding rings, and those don't hardly feel rough at all. I know due to the crystalline structure of diamond, you could never get it as flat as copper or another metal, but I think you could get it flat enough to where it wouldn't matter.

yeah, and at the same time, I believe its the crystalline arrangement of atoms that cause it to be so conductive.

-Dae-

 

[PunkRawk911]

now heres a question. science can create chemically identical diamonds for a fraction of the price (these are usually cubes and arent usable for pretty things like jewerly). would they have the same cooling properties as natures stuff?

Since they are chemically identical, then yes. They would have exactly the same cooling properties as natural diamonds. At the same time, scientifically made diamonds would probably work even better because the purity of them can be controlled.

 

[Niels W K]

Carbon is good for heat, just look at GP motorbikes, they use discbrakes with carbon, they have to be warm to function...hehe
and the break dynamicly.
Steelbrakes cannot cope with the heat these things can stand.

 

[I.M.O.G.]

Solid silver in the base!!
well if gold is worst than what this could be a ADAMANTIUM hs?

This heatsink will not be a great performer.

You are referring to the silverado heatsink, or a replica... similar to this heatsink:

http://www.noisecontrol.de/international/oversea/eng_info_page.htm

It is junk IMO. But decide for yourself of course.

Here is a similar question to yours:

http://forum.oc-forums.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=60420&highlight=silverado+heatsink

And here's a search with other threads on the silverado:

http://forum.oc-forums.com/vb/searc...d=326743&sortby=lastpost&sortorder=descending

 

[sanford1]

actually, diamond conducts heat 4 to 5 times better than silver.......its too bad it's so rare

I've heard the you can make diamond films with a process like vapor deposion or sputtering or something like that. But, if I need to do that to my air cooled heatsink to make it work, I'll just go to water cooling, thank you...

 

[a c i d.f l y]

This heatsink will not be a great performer.

You are referring to the silverado heatsink, or a replica... similar to this heatsink:

http://www.noisecontrol.de/international/oversea/eng_info_page.htm

It is junk IMO. But decide for yourself of course.

Here is a similar question to yours:

http://forum.oc-forums.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=60420&highlight=silverado+heatsink

And here's a search with other threads on the silverado:

http://forum.oc-forums.com/vb/searc...d=326743&sortby=lastpost&sortorder=descending

The fans on that sink are fairly noiseless, as there is another sink that utilizes the 'blower' technology, however, that silver-based alluminum heatsink simply does not have enough surface area to be effective. That's like using a pre-P200 heatsink, and slapping silver to the base and low-noise fans together... you're still limited by your weakest part....

..much the debate about copper vs. alluminum, if a fancy collective use of silver-base with a high surface area of alluminum prongs, with a solid connection between the two metals, and a decent cfm fan, that would be the most feasible. But hybrids in practice, have shown not to be too fairly effective, as no one can get a good enough connection between the two different metals..

-Frank

 

[Cereal Killa]

well if gold is worst than what this could be a ADAMANTIUM hs?

Seen X-Men a little to much?

(Or are you just referring to the Diamant alias?)

 

[robbiewilso]

back over to solid state hdd's---

would they end up being powered by something similar to the WOL connector when they are powered down? or i would hope they would have a battery backup internally just in case someone cut the power- or will they work just like compact flash? i know they have compact flash cards a LOT larger than the early 20mb harddrives already... so i guess its just a matter of time as someone said earlier...
robbie

 

[PunkRawk911]

Solid state harddrives as they are today, are basically just large amounts of normal DDR RAM. Instead of being limited to ~100Mb/s transfers as most harddrives today are, they would transfer as fast at whichever ram they had in them. For example, A solid state harddrive made with PC3200 ram would transfer near 3.2Gb/s. Just think, maybe someday we will not only be overclockeing our cpu's video cards, and memory, but harddrives too.

 

[WarriorII]

Where's SilverSinkSam when ya need him?

 

[I.M.O.G.]

The fans on that sink are fairly noiseless, as there is another sink that utilizes the 'blower' technology, however, that silver-based alluminum heatsink simply does not have enough surface area to be effective. That's like using a pre-P200 heatsink, and slapping silver to the base and low-noise fans together... you're still limited by your weakest part....

..much the debate about copper vs. alluminum, if a fancy collective use of silver-base with a high surface area of alluminum prongs, with a solid connection between the two metals, and a decent cfm fan, that would be the most feasible. But hybrids in practice, have shown not to be too fairly effective, as no one can get a good enough connection between the two different metals..

-Frank

You highlighted a few of the relevant problems that can be noticed just by looking at the heatsink.

I just wanted to note that there is no debate about copper vs. aluminum... copper is better, period. There is only discussion on the topic because not everyone has gotten their information from reliable sources. If everyone read this then they would understand why aluminum does not have better thermal properties than copper for our applications, and they would also understand why some people misunderstand the facts about the two materials.

 

[heavy666]

Seen X-Men a little to much?

(Or are you just referring to the Diamant alias?)

yes it was about wolverine's bone.

hehe a little joke.