videoman5

Here's the situation, at my school's welding lab, I have an endless supply of steel. Yet, I never hear about steel in the making of heatsinks. My question is that if I were to make a heatsink out of steel, would it do any good? Weight is not a problem, neither is looks. I just wanted to hear your thoughts.

xXkeyboardkowboyXx

Steel is real slow at transferring heat so thats why its not used in making heat sinks.

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DuckieHo

Thermal Conductivity (W/m K)
Stainless Steel = 16
Copper = 401
Aluminum = 250
Silver = 429
Mercury = 8

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Jarhead

Let's see, would it be advisable... nope, no, don't do it, not a chance, uh-uh, run away, negatory, and imagine a couple of other ways to say that steel is a horrible heat conductor. It doesn't dissipate fast enough. One of the reasons that it's used for ovens and other cookware.

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DjQurt

wow stell blows . what about diamond?

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DjQurt

you want to build me a case ill pay shipping and for labor

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DuckieHo

Diamond = ~2000

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To answer most of your questions: (1) a fridge cannot cool a PC (2) 64-bit OS for over 3GB or so (3) PCIe 2.0 is backwards compatible with PCIe 1.x (4) Resolution, not screen size (5) If you have a question, it is not news (6) Read TOS (7) Report, not respond to Spam (8) Uninstall nTune (9) Single/Non-Modular Rail PSUs are NOT better than Multi-Rail/Modular (10) Edward is the Law!

Rowan

Time to make diamond heatsinks...

Zeag

That would be the ultimate computer case Bling. But it would probably cool like crap and cost 10k bucks

xXkeyboardkowboyXx

@ duckieho what makes diamond so much better at conducting is it the carbon?

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