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Thu Aug 14, 2003 1:40 pm

Krogoth255 wrote:
but, the tempeatures that diamond semicondutcors can tolerated theorically can caused heating problems with the other components of the computer. Remember diamonds melt at around 3000 degrees F! I would suspect a diamond chip could be heated up much more then good old, slilcon without damaging the traces on the die. This leaves a problem how to cool down a diamond chip if you were to feed it a lot of current to achieve a high clockspeed/very high transitor count without damaging the PCB and such. :-?


Lol, how about a Diamon Mobo too! :lol:

Yeah, I think watercooling would get a big boost if we jumped CPU temps up by another 200*F!
 
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Thu Aug 14, 2003 2:05 pm

IIRC diamond conducts heat better than silicon. This would make the chip easier to cool.

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