Interesting question.

[Rickster]

How come the cables that come from the PSU to the mobo, GPU etc. arnt copper but rather tin or aluminium?


Does it have something to do with DC power?

 

[bekdik]

Cheaper.

 

[Zuner]

but psu's are so expensive already it should be the purest of copper.

 

[Rickster]

but psu's are so expensive already it should be the purest of copper.

My thoughts exactly.

 

[airborne]

How come the cables that come from the PSU to the mobo, GPU etc. arnt copper but rather tin or aluminium?


Does it have something to do with DC power?

Normally copper or tinned copper to limit corrosion, that looks like tin or aluminium but it's just a coating on the copper strands. Only the most budget of budget psu won't use copper and even then they still do, they just make the wires rather thin to cut costs but the core is still copper.

 

[garyc]

Copper bends more without cracking.

Aluminium requires special (expensive) crimp connectors to avoid oxidation at the plugs.

 

[sajunky]

How did you figure out? There are all around insulated.

 

[crackersa]

Feck, I am impressed