Recent content by Loknar

A very wise post, Nathelion. You illustrated the importance of dissipation very well. In spite of theoritical "heat conductivity" properties, the practical facts lead to our common two/three-stage heatsinks. The amount of metal, shape, thickness of fins, space between fins and airflow power...

Correct, adding a plating of silver does not improve thermal conductivity - making it worse probably. Its quite expensive (no- I'm not paying 10$ per ounce) but I think the main reason is that its not as strong as copper or Aluminium; Its highly malleable which can be a design flaw (read...

Diamonds, most definatly! It can be synthetic diamonds, easier to shape to design specification. I certaintly hope they will be embedded in the chip design soon. I guess it would dissipate heat better and operate at higher temperatures. We have to say conducting the heat is one thing; getting...

Yes but... You may consider the anistropic nature of graphite in both thermal and electric properties. The production of perfectly aligned carbon planes is nearly impossible. Synthetic graphite is highly porous - thus we are unable to find a consecutive plane longer than 1mm is impossible...

Graphite is used to reduce thermal conductivity usually, as it is highly athermanous - much like any carbon-based substance. But then again I don't know what you mean by "suspended", Necrotech.

Huh?? First, install Intel drivers, Nvidia Drivers and then Asus drivers. After this - and this is the most important step - undo everything you just did, re-install windows XP, then update to Vista 64-bit. Format your HD to Fat32. Repeat these steps 2-3 times and you're done! Seriously...

This is a very strong board and now its incredibly cheap. I paid twice as much for the RAM. The board is also a gold mine of features. Well most of these factors benefit from the 680i chipset... I have problems with the supposedly amasing software from ASUS: PC Probe II and AIBooster. On...