06-25-2016, 11:31 PM
(06-25-2016, 11:11 PM)Boring Wrote: That is why I ask. The contact area with the copper heatsink looks so small. I was wondering if this is not constricting the airflow.
Can you post cooling results with and without cap?
I'm happy to be proved wrong, but I wouldn't expect it to so much restrict airflow (we are talking about passive cooling here, after all) but to increase the area over which heat is dissipated, which is the whole idea of a heatsink in the first place... hence I would expect a couple of degrees drop in temperature allowing for longer periods of high CPU load.
However, that is all semantics until someone can post some results. I can't as I don't even have a heatsink on mine!