Sparkle Says DLC Heatsinks Help Overclocking

[HaZ]

Sparkle Computer Co. this week announced a technology for cooling its video cards called Diamond-like-Carbon (DLC) coating. Stated as a new process to help dissipate heat from heatsinks, Sparkle sets sights on overclockers.The new coating uses what Sp

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[chris13th]

5 degrees C, huh? Nothing a little fan tweak and some AS5 can't do.

 

[scryer_360]

The thing is, its 5 degrees Celcius by itself. It'd be even more with some fan tweaking and Artic Cooling MX-2.

Its only a good thing for this.

 

[Zenthar]

Yeah, but what if you can get an additional 5C after you tweaked you fan and applied AS5? It has long been known that diamond has 2.35-6.10 time the thermal conductivity of copper (and even better than silver). You put Arctic Silver on your CPU ... why not Actic Diamond 😛

 

[sacre]

Move to the north, hook up a water system and put the Radiator outside.. there, your gpu/cpu/mb will sit at 5 celcius all the time.. or it won't.. i unno

 

[Guest]

Aluminum still oxidizes (rust is a synonym). It looses its shininess in the case of Aluminium. Of course different alloys will be a little different.

 

[grieve]

[citation][nom]sacre[/nom]Move to the north, hook up a water system and put the Radiator outside.. there, your gpu/cpu/mb will sit at 5 celcius all the time.. or it won't.. i unno[/citation]
If you did this @ my house the water would freeze... I guess you could run Antifreeze in there.
If I had my machine turned off and went to work… when I come home my CPU would be like -20C @ bootup, condensation might be a problem when the processor gets warm.

 

[sacre]

[citation][nom]grieve[/nom]If you did this @ my house the water would freeze... I guess you could run Antifreeze in there. If I had my machine turned off and went to work… when I come home my CPU would be like -20C @ bootup, condensation might be a problem when the processor gets warm.[/citation]

Indeed Condensation would be quite an issue. I use anti-freeze in my WC system, gives her a nice glow, but I do not dare put that radiator outside for obvious reasons.

 

[mrubermonkey]

What is the price premium going to be for this stuff?

 

[Guest]

rust is the corrosion product of iron,not of copper or aluminum.
Aluminum does corrode, and the corrosion layer makes aluminum much stronger.
In fact, near to all visible aluminum is corroded aluminum.
One can see naked aluminum when one damages an aluminum bar for instance. It will be lighter,and shines better.
A couple of days will it need to look dull again like the aluminum we know. (ie to be corroded)

apart from that, the laser treated carbon really is good for this, as well as in solar panels!

 

[brendano257]

88C.....isn't that at a point where you should be looking into water cooling, or any other better cooling option anyway. Dropping 5C from 88C is like dropping 1/2C at a temperature of around 50C, I don't think this has much application, especially if that's the heatsink temp, not the die temperature.

 

[zodiacfml]

agree with the guy above.