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A Look At The World of Heatsinks

Posted by Hemos on from the sales-folks dept.

A reader writes: "There's an interview with Glenn Summerfield, Senior Sales Associate for Alpha Novatech (USA) that talks about heat sinks and where some of it is going." Alpha Novatech is one of the big boys in the field of heat sinks - the responses do have a bit of "salestalk" for Alpha Novatech, but seeing industry thoughts on watercooling vs. aircooling and such is interesting, nonetheless.

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  1. I like the graph by jamesdood · · Score: 2, Funny

    Obviously while sucking is good, blowing is better!

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  2. Ban the fan! by PopeAlien · · Score: 3, Funny

    I would have liked to see more focus on using the heatsinks without fans. I wish we could get away from moving the air past the heatsink with a big-ass whirring fan.. Between the fans and drives in my systems I can barely hear the phone ring. I've started putting foam and dynamat in my boxes to quiet them down, but I'm thinking it would be cheaper and simpler to just duck-tape the foam to my ears..

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  3. This is a good thing. by narfbot · · Score: 3, Funny

    It's a good thing they're looking into better heatsink design. Because what if one happens to fall off, guess what happens?

    And you can't blame my AMD for that! It was the heatsink not being there!!!

  4. Re:thermoacoustic heatsink by pangur · · Score: 2, Funny

    "Lassie, what's wrong boy?"
    "What's that?"
    "Our mail server's heatsink just failed and the processors gonna blow up?"
    "Thanks boy, you just saved the day."
    "Whadyamean Timmy's in a well again? Serves him right for playing near that thing."

    Of course, if its an AMD processor, then the thing is fried by the time Lassie hears it anyway...but you get the idea.