Cutting Open a Heatsink Heatpipe To See Inside 132
An anonymous reader writes "Frostytech gets to the heart of Zalman's CNPS11X heatsink by cutting a section of heatpipe from the CPU cooler to inspect its inner composite heatpipe wick structure. Now that's an in-depth heatsink review! Interesting photos of the dissected heatpipe's composite wick — sintered copper powder on top and axial groove wick below — that you're unlikely to see elsewhere. In the late 1960s the first commercial heatpipes were used by NASA to stabilize satellite temperatures; now they stabilize multi-core processors."
Re:Where's the juice? (Score:5, Informative)
Re:But how does it compare to a solid heatpipe? (Score:4, Informative)
They work much better. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heat_pipe [wikipedia.org]
-Aaron