Basically the bottom of the heatsink is a small copper container that holds about 100ml of water, the copper pins rise out of this and the middle group of pins have the water absorbing material woven around them, the material soaks up the water, the water is evaporated by the fan, which cools the material, which cools the pins it's woven around, which eventually cools the cpu (:.
It's terribly impractical, since it needs a horozontal mobo , and it chews through the water like nothing else, I need to re-fill it every hour or so (though it still cools adequetly when dry if the cpu is only idling)
It was quite an interesting experiment never the less.
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