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Old 04-20-2009, 03:35 PM   #43
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What he said..^^ [...] You can either have forced air cooling or a heat sink..in this case its the heat sink and it lessens the amount of intervals in which the fluid would have to be replaced.
I was kidding, and I hope you are too. A heat sink would have a lot more surface area. Those weights are pretty worthless as heat sinks, they're good ballast for storing heat but have nowhere near enough surface area to dissipate heat well.
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