Cooling performance difference across different metals.

[abhigyan001]

I think LTT should do a video comparing how much difference does one metal make from another in terms of better heat dissipation.

Buy raw metals like Copper, Aluminium, Indium, Zinc, Nickel,  and even Silver and get heatsinks built out of them of equal shape and size (not weight) and compare the difference it makes.

 

I am pretty sure they can get a few built for themselves.

[don_svetlio]

3 minutes ago, abhigyan001 said:

I think LTT should do a video comparing how much difference does one metal make from another in terms of better heat dissipation.

Buy raw metals like Copper, Aluminium, Indium, Zinc, Nickel,  and even Silver and get heatsinks built out of them of equal shape and size (not weight) and compare the difference it makes.

 

I am pretty sure they can get a few built for themselves.

Do you have any idea how expensive a silver heatsink is? Besides - Wikipedia already has that. The best solution is silver, followed closely by copper. Aluminium is next and anything else isn't worth the investment

[abhigyan001]

1 minute ago, don_svetlio said:

Do you have any idea how expensive a silver heatsink is? Besides - Wikipedia already has that. The best solution is silver, followed closely by copper. Aluminium is next and anything else isn't worth the investment

Silver is around $800 in Canada per Kilogram. I am pretty sure they can spend that amount for a Video when they would be making way over that.

[don_svetlio]

Just now, abhigyan001 said:

Silver is around $800 in Canada per Kilogram. I am pretty sure they can spend that amount for a Video when they would be making way over that.

You do realize that they also have to pay for the manufacturing - they can't just take a slab of silver and call it a heatsink. It's not worth it.

[abhigyan001]

1 minute ago, don_svetlio said:

You do realize that they also have to pay for the manufacturing - they can't just take a slab of silver and call it a heatsink. It's not worth it.

 

They have good enough relations with Manufacturers who could do this.

[don_svetlio]

Just now, abhigyan001 said:

 

They have good enough relations with Manufacturers who could do this.

I am pretty certain you are a troll...or extremely ill informed how the world works

[Imglidinhere]

9 minutes ago, abhigyan001 said:

Silver is around $800 in Canada per Kilogram. I am pretty sure they can spend that amount for a Video when they would be making way over that.

That's hilariously expensive when you factor in that's just the metal, not the heatsink.  The heatsink would cost more to produce actually...

[abhigyan001]

2 minutes ago, Imglidinhere said:

That's hilariously expensive when you factor in that's just the metal, not the heatsink.  The heatsink would cost more to produce actually...

Well, one for the sake of a video wouldn't hurt. LTT made a $30000 PC for Christ's sake.

LTT is all about overkill

[Imglidinhere]

1 minute ago, abhigyan001 said:

Well, one for the sake of a video wouldn't hurt. LTT made a $30000 PC for Christ's sake.

LTT is all about overkill

Unless I'm mistaken, they didn't actually PAY for those parts...

[abhigyan001]

1 minute ago, Imglidinhere said:

Unless I'm mistaken, they didn't actually PAY for those parts...

Alright. But can't they spend $1000 on a Video when they would be making a lot more off of it.

 

Not to mention, silver can be later be resold at scrap prices making the investment only a few hundred dollars.

[DrMikeNZ]

While they are at it, they should do a heatsink made out of diamond as well. /s

Silver would likely be too soft and fragile after it is made into thin fins with sufficient surface area, that they wouldn't be able to handle it or install it without destroying it.

 

1 minute ago, abhigyan001 said:

Alright. But can't they spend $1000 on a Video when they would be making a lot more off of it.

They already did that by buying an HDMI cable made out of silver. If you can imagine a cable with all of a few dollars worth of silver goes for $1000, a heat-sink would be off the charts.

5 minutes ago, abhigyan001 said:

Well, one for the sake of a video wouldn't hurt. LTT made a $30000 PC for Christ's sake.

LTT is all about overkill

They borrowed most of the components, then had to return them afterwards.

[abhigyan001]

2 minutes ago, DrMikeNZ said:

They already did that by buying an HDMI cable made out of silver. If you can imagine a cable with all of a few dollars worth of silver goes for $1000, a heat-sink would be off the charts.

That is because a lot goes into a production HDMI cable than a custom Silver Heatsink.

As I said silver is ~$800 CAD per kilogram and I am pretty sure a heatsink is way lighter. Also, remember the Neighbor Linus had in ScrapYard Wars Season 2 who built the Waterblock. A heatsink can be built like that as well because it requires no circuitry or anything.

Also, Silver can be later sold, the entire thing at the same price. The price won't reduce on used silver.

[Imglidinhere]

12 minutes ago, abhigyan001 said:

Alright. But can't they spend $1000 on a Video when they would be making a lot more off of it.

 

Not to mention, silver can be later be resold at scrap prices making the investment only a few hundred dollars.

They don't make money on videos. They even made a video ABOUT how they make money.  Seriously dude... where are you getting all of your BS from?

[abhigyan001]

3 minutes ago, Imglidinhere said:

They don't make money on videos. They even made a video ABOUT how they make money.  Seriously dude... where are you getting all of your BS from?

You saying that Youtubers don't make money off of YouTube what?

 

This is not retard, it is next level retard.

[DrMikeNZ]

10 minutes ago, abhigyan001 said:

That is because a lot goes into a production HDMI cable than a custom Silver Heatsink.

As I said silver is ~$800 CAD per kilogram and I am pretty sure a heatsink is way lighter. Also, remember the Neighbor Linus had in ScrapYard Wars Season 2 who built the Waterblock. A heatsink can be built like that as well because it requires no circuitry or anything.

Also, Silver can be later sold, the entire thing at the same price. The price won't reduce on used silver.

A normal HDMI cable is relatively cheap to make.

 

Manufacturing a heatsink in that manner would result in an extremely inefficient heatsink, and would be destroyed by any off the shelf air cooler.

Many off the shelf aluminium coolers go up to 1300g of aluminium. The density of aluminium is much lower than that of silver, a silver heat sink of similar surface area would be around 5.0kg and would not support its own weight.

 

There will be losses in the manufacturing process, you cannot recover all of the filings, and the material would be heavily contaminated. If you started with a decent grade silver, you won't get much of anything back for it after it is ruined and sold for scrap prices.

[Ichi]

I can't even...

[WoodenMarker]

But why?

Wikipedia has the information you're looking for already. 

Mounting hardware, heatsink, and heatpipe design make a bigger difference than the different metals.

The video would be pretty pointless.