Well, I suppose I reacted to the "possible" crack in a sealed tube of liquid.
I thought the pipes were solid. Hmmmm...... :)
I do have experience with solid heatpipes. Yes, it was years ago.
If all the 'new' ones use liquid, this is a good improvement. I can deal
with this forward progress...... :)
Thank you for bringing me up to speed about 'heatpipes.' Great share.
Now I'm a bit more forward. And, in the future, I will search for
heatpipe-type cooler solutions. Right now. Don't need any help.
It's all good here with ThermalRight.
My share holds. Believe the heatsink may be toast.
Best,
Duncan
At 03:43 01/31/2008 +0000, you wrote:
On 31 Jan 2008, at 01:57, DHSinclair wrote:
Well, I do not know the actual construction of the 'suspect'
heatsink. Thane is way up north. I am way south and west of him.
Snot like I got to put 'eyes' on the problem. I read here it was of
the new "heatpipe" varieties. I have no experience with a
"heatpipe" type HS yet.
I still live in the solid metal chunk heatsink world. They are
tough to fail, but I have read about trouble here too!
But, I do understand the basic physics that a "heatpipe" plays with.
So, I agreed with Thane that it seems that the HS is toast and needs
replacement. I was not aware that the heatpipe's might have some
sort of liquid as a transfer agent. I thought the current crop of
heatpipes used solid tubes to transfer heat to the "radiator." No
matter, whether liquid-filled or solid, if any of the "pipes" have
broken with the base, the device is toast IMHO. Perhaps I am way off
base. I can hang with that.
Best,
For it to qualify as a heatpipe, it has to be a hollow tube filled
with a liquid that has a low boiling point (in a lot of cases this is
merely extremely low pressure water)
I've never heard of one failing, but I suppose it's possible for one
to spring a leak or something of that nature.
-JB
