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[color=orange]I most always enjoy the “shoot out” types of articles as they try to achieve an honest side-by-side look at competing products. More so I like articles that sometimes compare older products against newer generation stuff (e.g. an old 6800GT based video card against contemporary GPUs) as it gives a broader look at today’s tech advancements.
In this article [H]ard|OCP has really pushed the boundaries of the product shoot out. To include cheese as a thermal interface is sheer brilliance, IMO. Imagine my relief to read that, sans OCing, cheese is a viable thermal interface. I can see myself working on a build when lo and behold I discover that I’m all out of my favorite thermal pookie and all of the local stores that carry thermal pookie are closed. Fortunately not all is lost as all I have to do is hit the drive thru at my nearby McDonalds or Burger King and I can continue with the build. Simply pull a blob of American cheese off of the burger and build away, plus you get a tasty snack to boot!
I do have some questions/observations that I’d like to throw out there for discussion and get others’ opinions on regarding cheese as a thermal interface. So here we go…
Does price = performance, i.e. can I OC if I use a havarti or Gouda cheese, for example?
Would a PC using cheese as a thermal interface tend to attract mice?
Got an old PC with a hot running P4 CPU? Use it to make mini grilled cheese sandwiches. It’s a great finger food for parties.
What if one needs to replace the HSF? How does one clean the old cheese off of the surfaces? I once saw a guy at Waffle House use some sort of pumice stone looking thing and a spatula to clean cheese off of a grill. Are these the tools that I would need?
Does that fuzzy looking green mold on old American cheese have a detrimental effect on the cheese’s thermal conductivity? Could mold possibly be an enhancement to performance?
“Cut the cheese” would no longer have negative connotations in geek circles. Hey Mack, I’m about to install the heat sink, will ya’ cut the cheese for me?
Well that’s about all I have for today.
Cheers,
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