wrote:
On Sat, 17 Jan 2004 12:29:54 +1300, "~misfit~"
wrote:


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.

Thinner fins are better, more surface area to dissipate the heat.

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.

I don't know farenheit, what's that in Celcius?
--
~misfit~