[mythtv-users] Interesting cooling approach

[Josh White]

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?

On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 4:43 PM, Larry Sanderson <larry.sanderson at gmail.com>
wrote:

> On Friday 29 February 2008 03:36:41 pm Michael T. Dean wrote:
> > I--a user who burned out 3 heat pipes on a laptop--will stay away
> > from /any/ design that uses a heat pipe.  (Especially since my Myth
> > box is asked to do a /lot/ more work than my laptop ever was.)
> >
> > Mike
>
> Burned out a heat-pipe?  I had no idea that was a common problem.  Did
> the pipe just burst, or did it spring a leak?  Do you know if this is a
> problem with a lot of designs?
>
> I ask, because a lot of the high-end CPU coolers today employ a
> heat-pipe design, and I've never heard of one failing.
>
> Thanks
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