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|kbn| · 08-13-2005, 12:26 PM

Havent read the whole thread but Im interested in the results of this.

To me this seems like the logical way heatpipes should be made.

I assume the coolant is water, at vaccume. While there are good resons not to use them, it may be better to consider other coolants lower boiling points at normal pressure.

I have always thought the block for a heatpipe cooler should acctually be part of the heatpipe - and not just a bit of copper with a hole and the heatpipe inserted into it - which must hurt performance a lot.

There was a thread about this on bit-tech, but it didnt go anywhere as no suitable coolant exists at normal pressure for DIY research.

Block deigns for evaporative cooling would also be very different to normal watercooling, so maybe there is a lot of space there for improvement - as you wouldnt judge watercooling based on a maze1 cpu block performance would you?

Unfortunatly this would not be useable on GPUs? where as normal heatpipes and watercooling can.

08-13-2005, 12:26 PM	#54
\|kbn\| Cooling Savant Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: W. Sussex, UK Posts: 329	Havent read the whole thread but Im interested in the results of this. To me this seems like the logical way heatpipes should be made. I assume the coolant is water, at vaccume. While there are good resons not to use them, it may be better to consider other coolants lower boiling points at normal pressure. I have always thought the block for a heatpipe cooler should acctually be part of the heatpipe - and not just a bit of copper with a hole and the heatpipe inserted into it - which must hurt performance a lot. There was a thread about this on bit-tech, but it didnt go anywhere as no suitable coolant exists at normal pressure for DIY research. Block deigns for evaporative cooling would also be very different to normal watercooling, so maybe there is a lot of space there for improvement - as you wouldnt judge watercooling based on a maze1 cpu block performance would you? Unfortunatly this would not be useable on GPUs? where as normal heatpipes and watercooling can. __________________ Waterblocks Last edited by \|kbn\|; 08-13-2005 at 12:35 PM.