Heat Pipe Technology

[muckshifter]

What is it ? ... Do you know ?

A market ploy ? ... or an actual improvement to the thermal solutions in dissipating heat from key components ?

The idea of this thread is to try and bring some awareness to the PC user.

Heat Pipes are not new, indeed they have been around since the late 60s


Some reading for you ...

http://www.heatsink-guide.com/content.php?content=heatpipes.shtml

http://www.cheresources.com/htpipes.shtml

 

[V_R]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heat_pipe

 

[Abarbarian]

Hmmm . Interesting , so its like a posh version of the cooling system on a car then .

 

[muckshifter]

Hmmm . Interesting , so its like a posh version of the cooling system on a car then .

err, nope ... a car rad is driven with a pump, that equates to a water cooling system on a PC.

What I am trying to point out, is, there are heat pipes and there are heat pipes ... what are you getting, do they tell you?

Read the articles, the "technology" is good, but what are you getting ?

 

[Alf]

I think heat pipes work somewhat.... They get mighty hot on my CPU cooler, They must be doing something good right?

 

[PotGuy]

Even if they don't work, preferable to a chipset fan. *bzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz*

 

[Abarbarian]

err, nope ... a car rad is driven with a pump, that equates to a water cooling system on a PC.

What I am trying to point out, is, there are heat pipes and there are heat pipes ... what are you getting, do they tell you?

Read the articles, the "technology" is good, but what are you getting ?

Yer right about the car cooling , what was I thinking of , yet another goof Thinking of the Scythe Ninja . Heres a review about it .

http://www.anandtech.com/casecooling/showdoc.aspx?i=2965&p=1

Bearing in mind that I'm only going to use a Athalon 64 3400 with it it should provide near silent cooling .