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Like the quote says the fact that it may radiate heat better is negligible.
If you touch your heatsink fins and they are actually hot, you have a problem. The fact of the matter is, the heat that reaches any and all fins is dissipated nearly instantly.
The exception to this is when you saturate a heatsink or radiator.
Water cooling is a very specialized field and what might work well in one situation may not be the case here. Might aluminum be better for dissipating heat in certain environments, such as one where your cooling something at 200F, perhaps, but in such a relatively low temperature system copper does a much better job of moving heat from the chip to the cooling system.
If you touch your heatsink fins and they are actually hot, you have a problem. The fact of the matter is, the heat that reaches any and all fins is dissipated nearly instantly.
The exception to this is when you saturate a heatsink or radiator.
Water cooling is a very specialized field and what might work well in one situation may not be the case here. Might aluminum be better for dissipating heat in certain environments, such as one where your cooling something at 200F, perhaps, but in such a relatively low temperature system copper does a much better job of moving heat from the chip to the cooling system.