On Mar 14, 2009, at 1:43 AM, pdimage wrote:
> > On 14/3/09 02:32, "Wallace Adrian D'Alessio" > <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Overclockers who are set on defeating heat to preserve costly CPUs >> yet squeeze >> extreme clock counts out of them have been known to polish the CPU >> and >> heatsink with ever finer grades of wet or dry paper starting with >> 1000 grit. >> And even going to finer grits of polishing compound. Some may even >> " lap : the >> surfaces together with a polishing compound. >> >> Then they apply the thermal paste after all of that. >> >> In theory the more closely the parts surfaces match and the thinner >> the paste >> needed to >> make up the difference the faster and therefore the more successful >> the heat >> transfer will be. >> > > Seems strange - the laws of physics would suggest that a coarse > finish - > rather than a polished surface - would provide a much greater > surface area > for a face to face contact - with the compound filling the pits in the > coarse finish... > > Pete Many Overclockers are much like some of the loonier Stereo buffs, the ones who will spend $300 on a wooden volume knob because it lends a 'warmer tone' to the sound; the ones who will spend $1300 on speaker cables that cannot be distinguished from coathanger wire in blind listening tests. Facts and logic only incidentally coincide with their methodology. -- Bruce Johnson "Wherever you go, there you are" B. Banzai, PhD --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
