Quote Originally Posted by ryboto View Post
Theres no "EXCESS HEAT"! it's the same heat source...Copper doesn't generate heat you know...it just conducts it faster, REMOVING heat faster under the same conditions. A copper heastink with an 800rpm fan will perform better than an aluminum heatsink with the same fan. It might be a marginal improvement, but it will conduct heat faster. If an aluminum heatsink doesn't conduct as much heat, its fins would be cooler than a copper version, and in that sense, you're going to have a hotter CPU.

Why will the ambient temp "Choke"? any decent fans are basically removing the entire case volume of air every minute, so the ambient air is going to be close to ambient room temp, and on top of that, you'll reach a steady state. Things aren't going to generate more heat because you change your material of conduction.
First off, yeah a copper heatsink will be removing more heat but at the cost of ambient temperature rising IF YOU DON'T HAVE GOOD AIR FLOW.

Second, if you don't have intelligent placement of good fans, your ambient temp will indeed choke. Getting good air flow in most case is very hard, and I think you're being pretty idealistic in thinking that a case worth of air is getting moved every minute. Grills kill air flow. Poor case design does the same, and most cases (even $300 ones) don't have close to the perfect air flow you seem to think exists. Again, consumer PC's are not a lab. We don't live in a vacuum, figuratively speaking. I think you're applying absolute scientific laws in a chaotic environment without thinking outside the box and realizing that there are a few important factors that kill this naive thinking.