What would they leak? Unless it's liquid cooled, my understanding was that a heat pipe was simply a copper pipe, and that heat simply transfered through the copper to the heat sink. Is that assumption wrong?<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">
On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 4:43 PM, Larry Sanderson <<a href="mailto:larry.sanderson@gmail.com">larry.sanderson@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="Ih2E3d">On Friday 29 February 2008 03:36:41 pm Michael T. Dean wrote:<br>
> I--a user who burned out 3 heat pipes on a laptop--will stay away<br>
> from /any/ design that uses a heat pipe. (Especially since my Myth<br>
> box is asked to do a /lot/ more work than my laptop ever was.)<br>
><br>
> Mike<br>
<br>
</div>Burned out a heat-pipe? I had no idea that was a common problem. Did<br>
the pipe just burst, or did it spring a leak? Do you know if this is a<br>
problem with a lot of designs?<br>
<br>
I ask, because a lot of the high-end CPU coolers today employ a<br>
heat-pipe design, and I've never heard of one failing.<br>
<br>
Thanks<br>
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