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Old January 17th 04, 01:15 PM
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On Sat, 17 Jan 2004 12:29:54 +1300, "~misfit~"
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I have been told that the bottom piece is actually chrome or nickel plated
copper. I bought three Bartons over a period of a month, the first had a
(bare) copper plate screwed to the bottom, the other two had a silver
coloured plate.


You are probably right. It did look like it was plated. They work well
though I was concerned that it seemed to weigh a fair amount less than
the other heatsinks I had. I dont even know if thats a factor. Are
thinner fins as relevant? Are they better ? The others have thicker
fins.

Even using the thermal pad and the low rpm slightly bigger fan on it
Im consistently in the 100-114 range even when I was encoding a video
with TMPGEnc and compressing a file with WIN RAR at the sametime and
doing other file things.