filling heatpipes with liquid coolant
- Thread starter RamboOC
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no mate it would stop them working.
Theres no way for the water to circulate matey so you will just end up raising your temps. Thats why liquid cooled systems have pumps.
WYP
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Here is the wiki explanation mate.
Essentially inside a heat pipe there is a small amount of fluid in a near vacuum. When this fluid is heated (like on a CPU or GPU) will make the liquid turn into a vapour and travel to the other side of the heat pipe, where the heat will transfer to a heatsink, turn the vapour into a fluid again, return to the heat source and repeat the cycle.
I hope this answers your question
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Has there ever been any passive thermo-syphon water cooled builds? I mean where there is a far larger volume of fluid and it is circulated by the heat it gains, ie cpu heats the water so it rises and is replaced by cool water.
Most early internal combustion engines used similar cooling methods without pumps and radiators. I suppose the problem would be the temperature required to circulate the water/fluid effectively would be too hot for the chips, ideal if they ran closer to 100*C though. Perhaps using a very large amount of water could overcome the problem... it would be very quiet if you could pull it off.
JR
Most early internal combustion engines used similar cooling methods without pumps and radiators. I suppose the problem would be the temperature required to circulate the water/fluid effectively would be too hot for the chips, ideal if they ran closer to 100*C though. Perhaps using a very large amount of water could overcome the problem... it would be very quiet if you could pull it off.
JR
remember300
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problem is you would create super fluid, not steam but pressurised liquids that would end up storing the heat and not dissipating.
This is bad for a few reasons the main one is you would have to have much thicker pipes due to increases in pressure. you would have to have the system 1 way and creating decent flow with out a pump would be very difficult. if you want quiet ideas you would be better off looking into piezo electric effect, making electricity from heat differences, which you could use to power something else.
This is bad for a few reasons the main one is you would have to have much thicker pipes due to increases in pressure. you would have to have the system 1 way and creating decent flow with out a pump would be very difficult. if you want quiet ideas you would be better off looking into piezo electric effect, making electricity from heat differences, which you could use to power something else.
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