On 08/12/2010 07:30 AM, Tim wrote: <snip> > I'd be quite surprised if this were very noticeable. Considering the > usual shiny black computer case, versus an optimal black body radiator. as in shiny vs flat black. be it degrees Celsius or degrees Fahrenheit, using Kelvin temperature is a better measurement for variation between colors/colours due to wider spread of numbers between end points. one link, even tho a '.gov' page, i do disagree with in that his wording would make his opinion correct; http://www.newton.dep.anl.gov/askasci/phy00/phy00740.htm some wikipedia links that deal with visual, radiated, and absorbed; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celsius http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CIE_1931 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color-color_diagram http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_index http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_temperature http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_theory http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Degree_Fahrenheit http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Effective_temperature http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kelvin http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermal_radiation http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermography > At any rate, it's unusual to use the case as the heatsink, unless you're > buying one of those expensive silent PCs. It's the fans that do the > heat dissipation. if you do not want to cremate the cpu, be sure you have a fan or two. > I can't help but think that this thread, long ago, descended into > theoretical absurdity. ;-) true, but what else to do. ;) -- peace out. tc,hago. g . **** in a free world without fences, who needs gates. ** help microsoft stamp out piracy - give linux to a friend today. ** to mess up a linux box, you need to work at it. to mess up an ms windows box, you just need to *look* at it. ** learn linux: 'Rute User's Tutorial and Exposition' http://rute.2038bug.com/index.html 'The Linux Documentation Project' http://www.tldp.org/ 'LDP HOWTO-index' http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/HOWTO-INDEX/index.html 'HowtoForge' http://howtoforge.com/ ****
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