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.... I wish a company made a copper option with heatpipes, could make a huge difference for overclocking.

Should not be that hard to fabricate on your own .... just need to find out what thickness of the copper slab to get, slice some slots / channels in it and then split a few copper tubes to for the fins that are slid into the slots. All you are left to do is drilling tapped holes for attaching the PCB. I wonder how cost efficient it would be though for just a handful of units ..... ?

digging up an old post here.....anyone think copper foil/tape would transfer heat to the heat-sink more efficiently? just trying to think of inexpensive ways to cool these S5's down. a 6 yard roll of copper foil is 20$ on amazon....could put a layer of it on the aluminum heat sink then put on some good thermal compound. just brainstorming here.

My goal is to have much lower temps with a less noisy fan. trying to make this more "home miner" friendly so I can take these out of my garage.

I think the thin tape wouldn't move enough heat from the center of the IC.

It would not do much for the heat. It just is a decent amount of heat being pumped out of there. That is why it has a good RPM fan.

That being said if quiet is the goal like I mentioned 2 Corsair SP120 in push/pull. Will be much quieter like night and day. But if in a hot summer place I would still stick with the original high RPM fan.