View Single Post
Old
  (#6)
lincpimp
Check out my huge box!
 
lincpimp's Avatar
 
Offline
Posts: 11,935
Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: Slidell, LA
02.03.2011, 05:31 PM

Quote:
Originally Posted by BrianG View Post
What about heat pipes? They work well for today's ~90w+ CPUs...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heat_pipe
Something like this, minus the fan?

http://cgi.ebay.com/Scythe-SCKTN-300...item4152518a72

Guessing I could just mount it to the top of the esc? My only issue with the hydra hv is that is has a stacked board design with multple water cooled heatsinks sandwiched in there. So just trying to cool one of them would be a waste of time. If I could do a heat pipe off each channel (2 per board) that could be an option.

I was just thinking that a closed system filled with something conductive would transfer the heat . Somewhat like a thermosiphon. But the heat pipe looks like a better idea.

The wiki page mentions making a heat pipe by just boiling the liquid in the pipe then capping it off. I am guessing you just want the liquid to start to boil when capping it off, so when it cools it will pull a vacumm? They mention that the liquid volume will be much less than the total volume inside of the pipe, 10% maybe? Or less?

Interesting idea. My idea and placement would allow for gravity to cycle the fluid back to the heat source, and airflow for cooling would not be an issue while moving.
   
Reply With Quote