Heat Pipes?

[imported_TheCadMan]

Anyone have experience with this type of design. I'm looking at getting the Themaltake Pipe101 i've seen all good reviews but none that are very informative. How do these things work? Since they have liquid inside, are they postion sensitive? Can they really reduce the temps by up to 10C? Help me out guys.

 

[Nebor]

They contain a highly heat conductive fluid inside the copper heat pipe. This makes the whole pipe the same temperature so it can more evenly distribute the heat to the heatsink itself. Positioning does not matter, the fluid is pressurized inside the heapipe, AFAIK.

 

[BonzaiDuck]

Unless there's something else I've failed to account for, the PIPE101 was one of the more successful choices I've made recently.

A "friend" who expounded much on the "research" he had done on PC components insisted that the orientation of a tower-case degraded the performance of a heatpipe cooler.

But gravity has little to do with it. Supposedly, it has a tubular wick inside the pipe. It works considerably better than the ThermalTake Spark 7+, which had always been a marvelous heatsink, but the PIPE101 and similar heatpipe solutions seem to be superior.

 

[BonzaiDuck]

One more thought about PIPE101 or a similar ThermalRight design (PIPE101 is ThermalTAKE's product).

The lovely thing about this and similar designs -- well -- really several things:

1) Low profile, so the impact of heatsink mass and weight on the motherboard is less than some "hanging-extension" designs
2) It only weighs 500 grams as opposed to Zalman 7000-Cu model at 775 grams.
3) You can put a 90mm (or 92mm -- same distance between mounting holes) fan on it.

The larger the fan, the lower rpms required to get so many CFM of air through the fins.

The TT UFO fan weighs less than 100 grams (I think), and spins up to a max of 3,600 rpm -- about 800 rpm faster than the Zalman fan -- and not too noisy at all. It pushes about 80 CFM through the fins at that speed. The Vantec 92mm Tornado will push 119 CFM through the fins, but it weighs about 187 grams.

I still do not think the Vantec is too heavy to mount on the PIPE101. Of course, it puts out about 50 Plus decibels at 4,800 rpm!!! Turn up your speakers on your surround-sound!

 

[iwearnosox]

Did someone say heatpipe?