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  • Silver plated motherboard!?!

    Check this out!

    Silver plated motherboard

    Seems like a marketing gag...
    If there's artificial intelligence, there's bound to be some artificial stupidity.

    Jeremy Clarkson "806 brake horsepower..and that on that limp wrist faerie liquid the Americans call petrol, if you run it on the more explosive jungle juice we have in Europe you'd be getting 850 brake horsepower..."

  • #2
    ROTFLMAO
    Last edited by SitFlyer; 20 November 2002, 04:12.

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    • #3
      Wouldn't mind having silver heatsinks and ramsinks on vidcards though

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      • #4
        Expensive?!?! NOOOOO...

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        • #5
          I can't remember off the top of my head (I no longer carry around my engineering tables and data), but isn't copper a better conductor of heat than silver?

          What we really need is diamond heatsinks - diamond is a very good conductor of heat but electrically insulating. Might be difficult to manufacture and rather expensive though...
          DM says: Crunch with Matrox Users@ClimatePrediction.net

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          • #6
            Silver is better than copper. And gold is even better than silver...but heavy as h€ll.

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            • #7
              AFAIK Gold is worse than Aluminum :?
              Why would I send my pants to New Jersey?

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              • #8
                Metals - thermal conductivities in WcmdegC(higher is better):

                Al 3.00
                Cd 1.03
                Cr 1.58
                Cu 4.83
                Au 3.45
                Fe 1.32
                Pb 0.396
                Mg 1.69
                Mo 1.79
                Ni 1.58
                Nb 0.552
                Pt 0.79
                Ag 4.50
                Ta 0.592
                Sn 0.85
                Ti 0.312
                W 2.35
                Zn 1.32

                Copper is better, according to my sources.
                DM says: Crunch with Matrox Users@ClimatePrediction.net

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                • #9
                  Those results were at 100 Kelvin (!) - my bad.

                  This is better: http://www.scinfitech.com/engineerre.../thermcon.html

                  (sorry - there is a popup there!)

                  Silver is the best, followed closely by copper according to these results at room temp.
                  DM says: Crunch with Matrox Users@ClimatePrediction.net

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                  • #10
                    Sorry, I was confusing it with electrical conductivity, my bad.

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                    • #11
                      actually silver is not expensive at all.
                      no matrox, no matroxusers.

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                      • #12
                        Originally posted by thop
                        actually silver is not expensive at all.
                        You have me to thank for that.
                        I bought some silver when it was low.
                        It promptly went down far more & stayed there.
                        chuck
                        Chuck
                        秋音的爸爸

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                        • #13
                          Originally posted by cjolley


                          You have me to thank for that.
                          I bought some silver when it was low.
                          It promptly went down far more & stayed there.
                          chuck
                          ROFLMAO!
                          According to the latest official figures, 43% of all statistics are totally worthless...

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                          • #14
                            They must be using some newly formulated silver based electrostatic paint to make these claims.

                            Tis a shame Marketing got thier fingers into the techno speak from engineering
                            "Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind." -- Dr. Seuss

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                            • #15
                              And I thought people were impressed by a RED PCB....


                              HA HA!
                              "I dream of a better world where chickens can cross the road without having their motives questioned."

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