Re: what is "fanless" cooling?
- From: coolsti <cool@xxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2006 08:04:34 +0200
On Wed, 30 Aug 2006 09:43:59 -0700, Gwen Morse wrote:
Is there a novice description of these things and what I'm supposed to
do (or not do) to get the Cool and Quiet heat block working without
frying my cpu?
Gwen
It might be interesting to do a Google search on heat pipes and see what
they are all about. I thought initially that they were just a highly
conductive metal, sort of like a huge cooling fin. But a friend told me
that there is some sort of liquid inside and it is the special properties
of this liquid going through phase changes as its temperature changes,
which extremely effectively can pipe heat from one location of the pipe to
another. My friend told me he was playing around with one, and put it in a
hot cup of coffee holding the extreme far end, and immediately burnt his
fingers.
I have a heat pipe in my Asus 8N32-SLI mother board, but for the chipset,
not the CPU.
The heatpipe basically moves the heat away from one location to another,
but this will only do anything for you if the heat at the "other" location
can be adequately removed. So you still need air circulation and transfer
by some other fans in your PC, but with a heat pipe you can move the heat
to somewhere where you have room for heat transfer fins, so that another
fan, like your cabinet fan, can do the heat removal.
.
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