[luau] Underclocking / Aluminum cases
Ray Strode
halfline at hawaii.rr.com
Tue Jul 2 16:34:00 PDT 2002
> My feeling is that copper would tend to hold the heat, for example a
> copper clad bottom on a pot or skillet. I'm pretty certain that
> aluminum cooling fins are the most efficient, although aluminum car
> radiators aren't very good while car radiators with copper fins are
> common and easy to repair.
Actually, I read somewhere (my physics book? not sure) that copper,
aluminum, silver, and gold were all good conductors of heat, but the
order of best to worst
is: silver, copper, gold, aluminum.
The idea is, if it's a better conductor of heat, then when it's used as
a heat sink, the heat will away from the chip to it. where it can be
cooled by the air (That's why
heat sinks are in fins i think).
Anyway, i'm certainly no expert, and could probably be wrong. Maybe one
of the other people on the list that are, could verify what i'm saying.
--Ray
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