MM Xl rating questions

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Originally Posted by BrianG

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.