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Absolutely. 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 s
by atmanactive 2y ago
Absolutely. 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