New cooling solution for you video card - HEATPIPES

[Slipknot]

Caught these over at OCworkbench. Very interesting indeed. They kinda remind me of the massive metalwork on the front and back of the Leadtek G4 cards. It also doesn't seem to take up an extra PCI slot. Enjoy.


http://www.ocworkbench.com/computex2002/day2/p6040954.jpg

http://www.ocworkbench.com/computex2002/day2/p6040956.jpg

[grimfandango]

What is this thing??who make this

[Jimstep]

Heat pipes seem to be making some in-roads. It is about as close to using water cooled systems as you can get. Though, heat syncs like the Volcano 7+, also have the same cooling capacity as the water cooled system according to some test results I reviewed.

[bigparsnip]

It says in the pic Zalman. Zalman are a company who like to make thngs for your computer that will make it run nice and quietly, as well as keeping it cool, they do the flower heatsinks,as well as a few other things. Anyway, this looks like a good idea to get a fanles GPU, by giving up trying to cool in the small amount of space below the card, and using a heatpipe to transfer the heat to the top of the card where you can have a much larger heatsink. Very creative thinking, and I would happily swap my noisey crystal orb for one if they started making them.

[$1500-P4 gamer]

Stuff like that would be GREAT in laptops. I mean heat is a big issue so is haveing to waiste power on fans. That would be good for fanless video chipsets and allow them to make them a wee bit more powerfull at the same time. The HDD's on those get hot too so it would be a help for that aswell. Wonder has any laptop done anything like this?:confused:

[DocEvi1]

Have you seen the new shuttle SS50 (?) ? It looks great, and has some really clever kit inside. To cool the CPU a huge, and I mean huge HS is used, but copper pipes are also put onto a radiator in the PSU. Cools the CPU well and in near silence.

Stefan

[bigparsnip]

They already do use heatpipes in laptops, have been for a while (that is where coolermasner first got the idea from). Also, as far as the shuttle goes, is it not the AMD version with the heatpipe cooler (not he P4 version) which is the SS40G if I am not mistaken (small pont but I'm obviousley bored).

Also, it is not the fact that the pipes are made from copper that allows them to tranfer heat so well. It is because they contain a special fluid and linig which evapourates (the fluid not the lining) and moves allong the pipe at very hig speeds before being coold and flowing back to the hot part of the pipe.

[DocEvi1]

I had seen it on the AMD, and assumed it was on the P4 version :rolleyes:

You see, I hadn't actually looked into all that much, just knew it looked good. Going to get one soon hopefully.

Stefan

[bigparsnip]

Well, I that case you should check out PC Power Zone for their rieview of both systems.

SS50 - P4 system (http://www.pcpowerzone.co.uk/reviews.php?id=83)

SS40G - AMD socket A system (http://www.pcpowerzone.co.uk/reviews.php?id=106)

[Strat]

Very nice, I may purchase.

[zybch]

It may work, but to me it just looks like more crud to block access to my allready crowded ram slots.