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**Flasherly[_2_]** · January 27th 20, 05:31 PM posted to alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt

On Sun, 26 Jan 2020 18:03:26 -0800 (PST), wrote:

Looking at some Intel stock coolers, they seem to use aliminium for
65 W CPU, but a copper core for the higher powered products.
So were HP cutting corners?

Depends. Coolers can cost, figure $20 before even looking at boutique
$50 and up configurations. And though that $20 cooler is going to be
obviously different than a $10 unit, the $20 unit, for a high to
better efficiency, surrounds itself with a aluminum casing around
copper-core "heatwicking" pipes -- 4, 6, and sometimes more pipes.

Then again, at extremes, the $10 cooler may be fine for a low-wattage
CPU a modest frequencies, as opposed to 12-cores drawing up to 200
watts;- An open-air build can get by without even a fan among lowest
CPU power draws.

As for HP and "cutting corners" I'd personally consider that they
designed the concept: Whatever it takes to get a buyer beyond at
least a representative minimum all-points warrantee offering, all the
sooner to reach that break-even point where a profit-take is realized.

Business, besides stipulating the word for the actual product, means
IT infrastructures;- I'm sure HP would be happy contractually to sell
a "business support" proviso for added services beyond such warrantee
terms aforementioned. After all, averages on computer usage among
average people who haven't a clue what goes on beyond four screws to
the MB's backplane, computers average three and more -- above a retail
strike on build costs -- for support technicians' capacity to unscrew
them.