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    25 days ago

    Let’s assume the dimensions of the copper block are 40mm40mm160mm (I’m not taking the heat spreader into account here)

    That results in a volume of 256000mm3, or 256cm3

    Copper (at 20C) has a density of 8.935 g/cm3, so that’s roughly 2.28736kg of copper

    Copper has a specific heat capacity of 384.603 J/(kg K)

    Using E=cm∆t, we can figure out that it would take ≈ 70378J of energy to heat the copper block to 100C, starting at 20C

    With a TDP od 120W, that means it would take 586 seconds to heat the block to 100C, or 9m46s

    This is probably way off but I was bored