The Ideal socket HS design

[skimzzz]

Here is what I consider the ideal HS design.

-- 80 mm area
-- all copper with polished base (as thin as possible)
-- topped with max number of round copper pins made perfectly spherical and as small as possible (like a hair brush) about 1 inch high
-- made so you can attach any 80 mm fan about 1/2 to 1 inch above the prongs (for air flow)

It doesn't matter if it's AL or CU, but I'm guessing that you have to use CU in order to extrude the small prongs.

Now, if only I could test this design.

 

[Trumphent]

Get hired by NASA, or the SkunkWorks. I am sure that better HSF solutions are available in the space/security/military industry than to the common computer user. Those guys also have budgets that are not going to develope a mass market item.

I hate the way that the ATX form factor has placed the processor socket right under the powersupply shelf. The popularity of the tower configuration mandates that all these oversized and heavy heatsinks are jutting out horizontally from the mainboard.

Soon it will take a hydraulic press to install or uninstall the HSF.

Signature? We don' need no stinkin' signature!