So now you know (can guess) why these are written late at night, I can't actually go to bed.
That said...
The heatsink makers of the world have duped us into thinking that thin light heatsinks are better than heavy thick ones, the ones with thick slabs of copper that don't get ruffled by heat.Thicker and copper are better, to me, but weighty is better too (in my opinion.)
You're waiting for the wimpy heatpipes with the nearly non-existent base to carry away heat, while the base, useless wimpy thing, is already at its saturation point!
"Stuff doesn't heat up *that* fast," you might argue,
"so *I* have no problems"
"(and I use corsair, so I'm confident" (yada blah whatever)
Well, I am not trusting and I wanted to look-see what real world industrial-strength heatsinks are made of.
https://www.xometry.com/resources/3d-printing/heat-sink/#:~:text=Does%20a%20Bigger%20Heat%20Sink,is%20selected%20for%20the%20application. Yeahyah, "Bigger=Better" but bigger how?
Lighter, less metal, and "Bigger" by streeetching metal, is cheaper than thick and they can charge more because it's organically grown-free-range (oops, wrong rant)
Thicker costs more to manufacture and a bunch of them would be very heavy.
"Heat Pipes," I used to think, were a scam, and maybe they are, I don't know either way: Light hollow tubes vs a huge slab.
Water cooled is nice (for them), the heatsink gets truly small and somewhere (far off) are fans cooling the transported liquid.
If money were no object (like in a space station or a nuclear plant) what would heatsinks look like?
Time and heatsink-paste determine the thickness of my hypothetical "Richer-than-God" heatsink, Time because even thick heatsinks would get heat-saturated after a while.
But don't believe me, go off and find your own bombastic branded POS website extolling the virtues of shiny metal.
Couldn't the heatsinks be part of a part, instead of stuck on a sponge-stuck onto the part?
Large threaded bolts tightened down by little nuts on top?
Heatsink paste everywhere sure,
but those (silver?) soldered-to-the-case bolts would be the primary conductors into your finned masterpiece???
Yes and no... exacting tolerances of size and torque (think of the torque!) would be needed. Water cooled is the "brown egg" of a desktop PC, being overpriced...
Size constraints on a motherboard being what they are, (not too wide, not too tall)
and gravity (not too heavy) restrict the design...
The highly conductive slab at the bottom of any heatsink setup, thick and heavy enough to handle itself in a heated exchange, (*I* think) would be a nice design.
I don't put a lot of faith in shills; the best methods are the ones they use (of course) But this one is worth mentioning (if not, I'll edit-in another site) https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/heat-sink-design-comparison-part-1-celsia-inc
They say (so far, slow-read)
That copper beats aluminum, thicker is better (but weight bites you in the ass) and WATER-heatpipes (do cheap heatpipes have water?
or were they sealed on humid days?)
are even better.
Fuck weight, find another way to handle it.
Heatpipes from reputable people (whoever they are)
Another day, another Train of thought.
Fictional 1912-columbia, an advertisement for the "Fellow Traveller Bar."
What is a "fellow Traveller"?
What, generically speaking??
It's a sympathizer to a cause.
And, in the course of looking it up,
I came across this.
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