Most coolers are aluminium actually.
Comment on After RAM and SSDs, PSUs and CPU coolers are next in line for price hikes
mushroommunk@lemmy.today 1 day agoThis increase is due to the cost of copper and tin shooting up. Copper is up 45% over the past year. Coolers are basically nothing but copper. Copper is hitting record highs due to much larger economic pressures too large for a Lemmy comment. So like if you want to find untapped copper vein and start a mining company then yeah you can lower the price but that’s about the only way right now.
SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org 21 hours ago
frongt@lemmy.zip 21 hours ago
Heatsink fins are aluminum. Heatpipes are usually copper. I’m sure we’ll start seeing even less copper and more aluminum.
BarbecueCowboy@lemmy.dbzer0.com 23 hours ago
I looked around a bit more after this site wouldn’t load and it seems like you are ahead of me, you hit the real reason.
Raw material costs seems to be the primary problem.