4 kg Literal Hunk of Copper Cools a Core i9 Processor

[80251]

What if they put dihydrogen oxide in the Cu cylinder? Would that help cooling in any significant way?

 

[caroline!]

The 46 % Dead Space piece

Thought it was related to the bathroom gag but it's something about "AI" upscaled resolution improving performance, MEH.

 

[AGlezB]

Now I want to see a Gamer's Nexus video about it. I'm having fun just thinking about about possible titles:

• Using a paperweight to cool your CPU
• How to hunk your CPU (sounds more LTT than GN)
• How to melt copper with an Intel i9-13900k
• How to cool a CPU and safely bend the motherboard at the same time (too long?)

 

[Easy Rhino]

...comes to mind.

 

[Wirko]

What if they put dihydrogen oxide in the Cu cylinder? Would that help cooling in any significant way?

That would make the calculations more complex. Don't wish for that.

 

[zlobby]

What if they put dihydrogen oxide in the Cu cylinder? Would that help cooling in any significant way?

Congrats! You just discovered the tea kettle!

Now I want to see a Gamer's Nexus video about it. I'm having fun just thinking about about possible titles:

• Using a paperweight to cool your CPU
• How to hunk your CPU (sounds more LTT than GN)
• How to melt copper with an Intel i9-13900k
• How to cool a CPU and safely bend the motherboard at the same time (too long?)

One should make a CPU-powered bong. You'd be getting higher as the temp goes higher. And get high benchmark scores, get it? Riiight!

 

[Bones]

OR....
Just set a bowl next to your GPU fans, load and light it with the fans drawing in all that smoke...
"High" scores were never easier.

 

[Bwaze]

Now make an elaborate machine that replaces the copper rod once it's saturated with heat

Ah, a Rube Goldberg contraption, intentionally designed to perform a simple task in an indirect and (impractically) overly complicated way!

 

[ypsylon]

With Wattage of modern CPUs, especially on Intel side, I expect Thermalright True Copper to make a comeback in not too distant future. What was it? 2.5kg of copper heatsink with 2 fans. Unless you had a very uncommon desktop case basically you needed solid piece of cable or big zip tie to mount it up to the case frame so it wouldn't tear the motherboard PCB around tiny 775 socket.

Heck even in servers, when new Xeons have power-provisioning for 700W per socket in some configurations, I can't see them using just ordinary aluminium heatsinks. In truth that's terrifying.

 

[Jism]

When you rotate the board 90 degrees it will take the complete CPU socket out of it.

 

[Dirt Chip]

Now make an elaborate machine that replaces the copper rod once it's saturated with heat

I have two of them.
They called hands

 

[Vario]

Seriously?

In a strictly figurative sense, it is literally a hunk *wolf whistles* of copper.

 

[S456]

Now make an elaborate machine that replaces the copper rod once it's saturated with heat

Just need one of those robot arms.

 

[Paganstomp]

/\ Might be useful. /\

 

[lilhasselhoffer]

Copper is $22 per pound - 44,68 EUR per kg? I looked before, saw numbers at about 8 EUR per kg - but that's the price you get for scrap copper! But I see that it's about 25 EUR per kg here...

The pricing I searched for was ingot. It's also relatively likely that the piece used was some "good enough" alloy from a melted scrap piece, with the central core milled/reamed/turned out of it to hit the weight quoted and increase the overall surface area by making the cylinder taller (my assumed surface area leads me to believe this is the case...but I couldn't square that circle with the pictures only).

I...stand by stupid human trick. The better way to set this up would be to use a lathe to turn half the cylinder down (about half an inch), cut each segment into equal thickness discs, stack the discs with alternating diameters, and secure these by partially crushing the (very malleable) copper into a pseudo fin stack. Even without a fan, the stack's huge increase in surface area would allow for much better heat transfer.

What if they put dihydrogen oxide in the Cu cylinder? Would that help cooling in any significant way?

So...fill the center of the tube with water...?

Can't tell if troll or actual question. Either way, funny.