Ninja Plus Rev.B Aluminium Socket!?

[aliasx]

I just bought a Ninja Plus Rev.B and I'm wondering about the socket being aluminium instead of copper, like shown on all pics I saw before I bought. Is this normal nowadays or did I get a cheap replica? Also the box doesn't have the window, its completely paperboard.

[Oli]

Everything is alright with your cooler - Scythe is using nickel plated copper now:

Material of the CPU-Cooler-Baseplate


Bye Oli

[aliasx]

Cool!Guess the nickle plating doesn't effect the heat conduction very much.

[Oli]

No, it doesn't.

[aliasx]

Cooling results are just awesome considering that it's passiv cooled.

[hiroshige]

Actually, the nickel-plating is part of improving the quality of our coolers: Copper gets oxidated during transport, nickel doesn't - so the quality of the baseplate stays the same when using nickel-plating.

Cheers,
Stefan

[ashrack]

on my fathers Ninja1 the baseplate copper is oxidated. Does this mean that it will cool less?

[sumo]

no, the performance is the same. But you can use 1000er sanpaper to polish the baseplate.