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Long Haired Git · 03-13-2006, 09:14 PM

The whole point of heat pipes is heat relocation and increase in the surface area where heat is moved to the air.
What point then water cooling?

pH has a good point: fiddly bits can then be serviced when perhaps previously they could not, but other than that?

And for all the hassle, simply putting a heatsink on the condensor of the heatpipe stuck out in the airflow of the case may well cool it well enough.

03-13-2006, 09:14 PM	#9
Long Haired Git Cooling Savant Join Date: Jan 2003 Location: Sydney, Oz Posts: 336	Re: News. The whole point of heat pipes is heat relocation and increase in the surface area where heat is moved to the air. What point then water cooling? pH has a good point: fiddly bits can then be serviced when perhaps previously they could not, but other than that? And for all the hassle, simply putting a heatsink on the condensor of the heatpipe stuck out in the airflow of the case may well cool it well enough. __________________ Long Haired Git "Securing an environment of Windows platforms from abuse - external or internal - is akin to trying to install sprinklers in a fireworks factory where smoking on the job is permitted." (Prof. Gene Spafford) My Rig, in all its glory, can be seen best here AMD XP1600 @ 1530 Mhz \| Soyo Dragon + \| 256 Mb PC2700 DDRAM \| 2 x 40 Gb 7200rpm in Raid-0 \| Maze 2, eheim 1250, dual heater cores! \| Full specifications (PCDB)