Hello, I'm interested in your guy's general cooling expertise. I'm considering using this for a home project, eschewing the fans and drawing heat through the heat sink and fan grill. the premise being that the attached heat sink will be big enough to radiate enough heat to keep it cool. In theory, I wouldn't mind keeping some or all of the fans, but the idea behind this heat sink is to add additional cooling to a custom enclosure for my nuc that will not have as much free air flow. Ideally, I wouldn't need the fans at all
assuming you had thermal paste and a copper plate covering both the CPU heat sink and fan grills, would you be able to draw enough heat away with a sufficiently large heat sink? I'm worried about the potential for the custom heat sink to bottle neck, even if it could theoretically handle it. I'm also worried about the material on the back of the heat sink. in your fine images, it looks copper, but in the video, it looks black. would it be possible to apply thermal paste and draw heat efficiently from the other side of the heat sink? is this material some kind of paint or plastic?