Sparkle says that these include ‘high heat conduction,’ and claims that a coating of the material on a heatsink reduced the temperature of a GeForce 9500 GT from 88☌ to 83☌ in its own tests – a drop of 5☌.Įxplaining the technology, Sparkle pointed out that diamonds dissipate heat in four times the speed as copper because the heat is transferred by phonons, which are produced by vibrations in the crystal lattice of the stones. Of course, diamond-like carbon hasn’t been anywhere near a diamond it’s just an amorphous form of carbon that has some of the same characteristics. This is probably why Sparkle has gone for the next best thing in its latest ‘Diamonds Sputtering’ heatsink technology, which involves coating the GPU’s heatsink in diamond-like carbon (DLC).
The precious material has a thermal conductivity of up to six times that of copper when measured in watts per metre-Kelvin, and it’s robust too.
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