funkiest heat sink i've ever seen

This one is a first for me. Looks like it belongs in a hotrod.

http://www.amazon.com/Dell-Heatsink-.../dp/B002AVZKXO



http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/...500_AA300_.jpg

oh yeah, those are cool. drive me crazy though trying to separate the copper!

lol no offence but, I take it you havent seen a lot of heat sinks. sry just pullin yur chain. I save those typs im going to do an art piece of a futureistic city using heatsinks.

remember some of those heat sinks look like alu but have a solder coated 1/2 lb copper plate on the bottom. so if the HS seems heavy fire up the grinder.

there is one of those in one of the pcs I picked up yesterday.

nice link! 3-used from $4.50. 1-refurbished-$30.24. Proves the hell out of my age old "refurbished" theory, in 99.999999% ofthe listings where it's used it's just a big word to the seller, that means "more money", and a bigger word to the buyer, who has no clue that it means "i just dusted this thing off a bit, if i even did that to it"

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nice link! 3-used from $4.50. 1-refurbished-$30.24. Proves the hell out of my age old "refurbished" theory, in 99.999999% ofthe listings where it's used it's just a big word to the seller, that means "more money", and a bigger word to the buyer, who has no clue that it means "i just dusted this thing off a bit, if i even did that to it"

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I know what you mean. I think I can also say "tested, works great". I mean, how does a heat sink go bad?? LOL

I cant see how its worth it to ebay stuff for $5, unless your shipping and handling costs are $20. By the time you factor in all the effort to ship it and ebay taking a cut, I dont see the profit (unless you have a huge volume).

lol all profit if you didnt pay anything for it, ah the joys of scrapping

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I think I can also say "tested, works great". I mean, how does a heat sink go bad?? LOL

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Actually that's one of those intercooled heat sinks that you connect to an external cooler. The cooling liquid circulates through the heat sink and then is pumped through a miniature refrigerator device.

This is what I do with those heat sinks. Cut the bottem off and throw it in the #2 copper bucket the rest I sell as aluminum-copper radiator.

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this is what i do with those heat sinks. Cut the bottem off and throw it in the #2 copper bucket the rest i sell as aluminum-copper radiator.

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^exactly!

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Originally Posted by tedanderson

Actually that's one of those intercooled heat sinks that you connect to an external cooler. The cooling liquid circulates through the heat sink and then is pumped through a miniature refrigerator device.

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Those heat sinks are pretty common. You will often find them in the older Dell business class gray boxes that were running Pentium 4 Hyper-Threads. They are in fact NOT liquid filled. There are different types that are though.
These heat sinks use the copper base and tubes to draw the heat away from the processor. The heat is then dissipated by way of a conventional fan set up.
In the Dell's that these are commonly found in, the heat passes through a green plastic shroud to the fan that is drawing it out. Heat rises and they are using that simple fact to the advantage of the computer.

Well, i've seen a few on ebay but looks as though most people just seperate the copper from the alum and scrap them?

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Well, i've seen a few on ebay but looks as though most people just seperate the copper from the alum and scrap them?

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I scrap them. The Cu with solder on is #2 Cu but much of the Cu tubing will go as #1 if you cut it from the rest. I also sell the Al fin with Cu tubes as Cu/Al radiator price here.

If you heat up the Cu plug at the bottom to melt the solder then make sure you have cut the Cu tubes. The reason is pressure will build in tubes and will explode. I know this because I have done it and got a surprise. Mike.