so, I'm looking to do something totally retarded and I'd like to ask you guys if its possible or wallet suicide (in the burning money sense, not the spending it on worthless shit sense).
This is the Hades nuc, and for my purposes, its a very attractive buy because I want to stick it into a book and need the slimmest gaming rid i can find.
https://youtu.be/-fiePyi6Xu0?t=8m49s
the video has an disassembly of the nuc and the question I have relates heavily to its heat sink. My goal, is to cast a copper heat sink and apply it to the exisiting heat sink. The die of the sink will be mounted in a hollowed out book's binding, drawing heat from within outward. the problem I'm unsure about obviously is weather or not it will work
The heat sink itself seems at least vaguely sound, there are fan less heat sinks available on the market and some of them approach the amount of surface area and amount of copper I hope to use. that doesn't necissarily mean it will work though, or be something you could physically touch. but before we get into "will the copper be cool enough to touch" A much higher priority is "this heat sink wont be bottlenecked ontop of the existing heat sink for some reason and fry my cpu."
The video shows the heat sink is dark black, while the other images show a copper heat sink. assuming thermal paste and a plate, I'd like to get some idea of how effectively you could draw heat from the processor. gaming laptops seem to do just fine for what they're capable of, the thing runs hot and the fan is obviously on all the time in them, but the CPU doesn't generally die while the heat is making its way to that fan. but this is more like attaching a heat sink to a heat sink and I'm just not confident without someone to explain to me any technical hurdles this idea might introduce.