external heatsinks?

[her34]

heatsinks are always inside the case and then a fan blow air around the heatsink out of the case. if devices used heatpipes and external heatsinks (with a grill/cage around it to avoid direct contact) wouldn't cooling be more efficient and quieter and possibly fanless?

 

[MustISO]

There is one like that for video cards. Not sure about one for CPU's, I've never seen one.

 

[Budman]

Zalman has a case with heatpipes where the case itself becomes the heatsink.

 

[Budman]

Found the link.

http://www.zalmanusa.com/usa/product/code_list.asp?code=020