I have three comments:
1) we are whiny elitist pricks with nothing worthwhile to contribute until you need something and then we are supposed to just work together? Well...ok sure sounds like a good idea! We can improve your reviews and you can shit all over us in your comments!
2) There's the law of conservation of something or other at work when you try to cool the heatpipes by using TECs or water or phase change on the outside of the case. If you think about it, if it were possible to use TECS or phase change or water silently to cool the load delivered by the heatpipes, then one would not use the heatpipes and enormous aluminum case in the first place. One would just directly use the superior cooling silently. We've seen many times that this doesn't work acceptably. And so you are stuck with fans and then introducing noise. This totally negates any advantage of the Zalman case over the quiet watercooled rig I am currently running. I would start if temps are high by just pointing a box fan at the case
3) This brings up some interesting review questions that I had when looking at this case.
a) What about the really hot bits on motherboards that don't contain heatsinks and that are normally cooled by airflow? MOSFETS are a prime example. Some motherboards now have heatsinks for these but many do not and rely on exhaust fans. There are a lot of other hotspots (70C+ in normal cases with air cooling) on motherboards that will run at god knows what temperature now. Is this only a problem with overclockers? Not sure.
b)Prescott CPUs are said to push 100-120W STOCK next year; are readers buying another Kryotech case (extremely expensive solution that doesn't really travel with them to the next generation of chips). That's a lot of heat for a passive heatpipe solution. This goes directly to Bill's question: what is the heat capacity for each component?
c) How difficult is it going to be to actually test this case when all the cooling is supplied by air moving around the case? Wouldn't any change in not just air temperature but also air current and direction affect temps of all the components? Hell trying to get stable radiator temperatures with fans is a pita; this sounds much more difficult to me.