High Performance Gold/Silver Heatsink

"What a waste of money!"

You all thought it when you clicked the post. Sure, going to liquid/refrigeration is going to be cheaper than buying a solid gold heatsink, and new HDT heatpipe sinks that touch the pipes to the IHS directly are proving their strengths, but would you pay that extra $40 to have perhaps gold or silver plating? Even silver soldering on crucial contact areas and joints, gold plated fins or silver base core, a funky 24k deformable gold thermal pad on its base that would not require a thermal grease, although we do have silver TIM, making this largely a huge waste that wouldn't be as efficient as a good compound.

For bling factor, a fully plated design. Gold, silver, even bronze and brass. Those who want to add pimp factor can then opt for a chromed fan that looks like a spinner rim.

The nearest I could find on the forums was this: http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/ [...] -core-diys : where some dude filled copper plumbing end caps with silver to put on his GeForce4 (tee hee .. its from 2002)

It might be a bit much for the humble heatsink, but you'd have the biggest e-peen on the block. Copper is all well and good, but at the rates it goes for today, why not lash out and step up to a precious metal? Screw your "$497.75c Budget Gaming Rig Help", this is for us with the bucks! You may be able to find a local electroplating/dipping factory who will plate your HS for mere pennies, depending on if they have leftover from the end of a big job. T.R.U.E. owners are gonna have to pay for that surface area, though! For those of us who live on air ......... ... ... they could be the swankiest geek at the LAN party.

Any links to custom jobs or aforementioned heatsinks would be great. Tell me about yours if it's custom!

I give you the Zalman CNPS3100G gold plated Hs.
As far as I know, it was the only consumer grade gold Hs made.

Google also found me one silver Hs called the Akasa Silver.
According to the review, it was a decent Hs but not spectacular.