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Yes, a stainless steel tank has thousand times more surface to disipate the heat away than a bare CPU. Same with 1-kilo heatsinks, like, for example, Noctua NH-
by atmanactive 2y ago
Yes, a stainless steel tank has thousand times more surface to disipate the heat away than a bare CPU. Same with 1-kilo heatsinks, like, for example, Noctua NH-P1 which I am using for passive air cooling today.
- BenjiWiebe 2y agoAnd a radiator the size of the tank probably has another 1000x better heat transfer than the tank.
- atmanactive 2y agoAbsolutely. It's all about heat exchange contact area, nothing more. Contact area can be increased by fins, or simply by mass. A cubic meter copper cube would still cool down a CPU adequately even without a single fin. Of course, fins are space-saving so everyone uses them.
- thatcat 2y agothat is only for conduction, convection - the air mass flowing over the surface area is also a variable in thermal transfer