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Fancy a system with "subtle, classy colour accents rather than overblown lighting"?
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Fancy a system with "subtle, classy colour accents rather than overblown lighting"?
Heatsink covers?
14 and 12 inches?Quote:
Originally Posted by HEXUS
Hell no. I want weird beige and weird brown-orange. If I paid for Noctua I want everyone to bloody well know it!
Seconded. I actually quite like my poo fans.Quote:
Originally Posted by Tunnah
I prefer to see khaki and coyote. Desert camouflage colours, y'see... ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by Tunnah
Either way, it's still far too colourful and exciting for the average Hexite!!
Anyone? Isn't this mad? Isn't the whole idea of a heatsink that you increase the surface area and thus the airflow that is available to remove the heat? Aren't you insulating by covering? Am I missing something?Quote:
Originally Posted by philehidiot
A little, but it's a pretty small fraction of the area lost.Quote:
Originally Posted by philehidiot
Rough ballpark estimate, ignoring the heatsink efficiency:
That cooler has 52 full size fins and 6 more smaller fins, so I'll assume that by covering the top surface of the top fin you're losing 0.9% of the area (1/110th). The power dissipated is (assuming unity efficiency) directly proportional to the fin area and temperature differential, so with the area decreasing the temp must rise to compensate. That extra 9% temp delta, on a 60 C temp delta, means that you're looking at a temperature increase of half a degree (and the real-world number will be lower, as the top fin is less efficient than the lower fins)