"Pumpless" watercooling article

[cbn]

http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=19148

This sounds very promising but I really wonder how much better it is compared to a regular vapor chamber?

P.S. Regarding vapor chambers, Are there any water cooling manufacturers planning on integrating that technology into their waterblocks? Would a vapor chamber (or this technology) improve heat transfer for any given thickness of cold plate?

 

[aigomorla]

lol..

Tony from ocz was experimenting with different mediums.

You guys remember there block which was made of carbon?
Well, he ordered a waterblock version.

needless to say we thought it would rock however.

physics states, diamond, any carbon composite for that matter, including graphite is hydrophobic!



So you know what happened right?

 

[SunnyD]

aigo, they're using the carbon nanotubes as straws relying on capillary action as the mode of transport, not the heat transfer medium. They're using copper as the contact transfer medium, not carbon.

 

[aigomorla]

aigo, they're using the carbon nanotubes as straws relying on capillary action as the mode of transport, not the heat transfer medium. They're using copper as the contact transfer medium, not carbon.

oh i understand.

but this is the problem tony had.

Even tho u could get the heat moved, the medium used to pull the heat off the carbon would need to be efficient as well, otherwise all you did was just move the heat to another bottleneck.

Tony seriously tried.. he spent a lot of money experiementing, and we all loved him for it.

But if graphite technology was so great, why havent we gotten anything from them yet?