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AFter all these years, first there was air cooling, enchanced heatsinks, copper heatsinks. Then came watercooling, and now, Heavy Metal Cooling.
Sound hazzardous, but it not. They use certain heavy metal pruducts like Boron, Liquid Sodium{ Na } Mostly is man created Heavy Metals such as Unnihexium. The point of this post is in about mid summer this year, BioWare has announed the release to nanocoolers. This type of cooling will be much more efficient than water-cooling. Once heat is deteced through the sensor, the pump will circulate the heavy metal, leaving the cpu or other components chilled.
This coller will be availible on high-end video cards, or so they say will be.
http://www.nanocoolers.com/product_lines.php

Interesting tech review, I say :twisted:
 

shawnlizzle =]

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heard about this a while back, sapphire actually implemented it on their x8xx line of graphics card but they never offically released it due to problems with it cooling below ambient and causing condensation problems
 

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I thought nano-cooling belonged to "carbon nano-fibers."

They exibit the same properties as diamonds but without the infra red reflectivity, ( gold reflects infra red also--space suit helmet visor etc)
which makes both gold and diamonds really questionable as heatsink paste.
 

desilver

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Quick Silver is Mercury.

Mercury is an excellent electricity conductor, and a poor heat conductor.
The two do not go hand in hand.

Hence would not be good for heatsink paste purposes from that point of view.

That is excluding the fact that it would evaporate anyway, make cinders of your CPU and probably of the board. It however has one redeaming quality when used in this fashion it would toxify the user and eventually eliminate him / her from the gene pool.
 

desilver

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for those that want bling bling paste......

Gold Thermal Compound Paste
Balance Stars-612, Gold Thermal Compound Paste for $4. ...
Thermal Conductivity 7.5W/mk,
Thermal resistance 0.06 C-in/W,
Suitable for CPU cooling AMD.

http://www.acortech.com/.sc/ms/dd/Cooling%20Products--Thermal%20Compound/1885/Balance%20Stars-612%20Gold%20Thermal%20Compound%20Paste


As a reference I will also add.....
Specifications: Arctic Silver 5
Thermal Conductance:
>350,000W/m 2 °C (0.001 inch layer)
Thermal Resistance:
<0.0045°C-in 2 /Watt (0.001 inch layer)
Average Particle Size:
<0.49 microns <0.000020 inch
Artic Silver 5 has received great reviews from many sites, including TechwareLabs.com and Gruntville. It also topped the tables in the Techzone.com thermal paste roundup
So if you are trying to find a thermal compound to edge out a few more degrees from your CPU or graphics card temperature, look no further than Arctic Silver 5.


to futher clarify gold verses silver....

http://encyclopedia.laborlawtalk.com/Mercury_%28element%29
Gold
Electrical conductivity 45.2 106/m ohm
The Specific heat capacity 128 J/(kg*K)
Thermal conductivity 317 W/(m*K)

Silver —
Electrical conductivity 63 106/(m*ohm)
Specific heat capacity 232 J/(kg*K)
Thermal Conductivity: 429 W/(m K)


mass calculations not supplied.
Gold would make a heavy heatsink.
 

desilver

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Mercury
Mercury is a relatively poor conductor of heat but is a good conductor of electricity.
Mercury slowly leaches into the air at room temp.
Mercury when purchased is sealed in a container, air tight seal.
Melting point 234.32 K (-37.89 ?F)
Boiling point 629.88 K (674.11 ?F)
Heat of vaporisation 59.229 kJ/mol

Electrical conductivity 1.04 106/m ohm
Specific heat capacity 140 J/(kg*K)
Thermal conductivity 8.34 W/(m*K) SH$T CONDUCTOR OF HEAT!

Aluminium
a thin layer of oxidation that forms quickly when it is exposed to air and which prevents further corrosion
A tear top aluminium can containing acid beverages, reacts with the aluminium whilst being poured after tab removed.

Electrical conductivity 37.7 106/(m?ohm)
Specific heat capacity 900 J/(kg*K)
Thermal conductivity 237 W/(m*K)

Copper
Electrical conductivity 59.6 106/(m·Ω)
Specific heat capacity 380 J/(kg·K)
Thermal conductivity 401 W/(m·K)

If you want to transmit heat, and allow heat to exit the material COPPER's your choice. Except for Silver.

If you want a mediocre heat conductor, that can absorb alot of heat, but wants to keep it, then Aluminium would be good.
 

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Nano cooling sounds intersting, but why not put some of this heavy metals into a normal water cooling kit? Hell we should just pour quick silver into our cooling kits! Just becareful

To the dude that wants to use a diamond as thermal paste.... what a waste.... I would rather use it to pull in chicks than to shove under a HSF.

Gold might not be bad idea.