Hi,
just somethin i was wondering. the top air coolers around atm are tower designs with heat pipes. now, from what i see, all these towers are designed to work upright. They have a base with the pipes running up to fins, the fluid in the pipes heats over the proccessor, rises as vapor, condences, and falls back down. how well does this work if you put it into a standard pc where the tower would then be side on. the fluid would settle to the bottom gravitationaly, which would be down one side of the heatsink, and not over the proccessor? does this effect the cooling capability of the heatsink? would it benifit from laying a standard atx pc onto its side to increase coolling performance (so that tower is upright)?
just wonderin.
Cheers
just somethin i was wondering. the top air coolers around atm are tower designs with heat pipes. now, from what i see, all these towers are designed to work upright. They have a base with the pipes running up to fins, the fluid in the pipes heats over the proccessor, rises as vapor, condences, and falls back down. how well does this work if you put it into a standard pc where the tower would then be side on. the fluid would settle to the bottom gravitationaly, which would be down one side of the heatsink, and not over the proccessor? does this effect the cooling capability of the heatsink? would it benifit from laying a standard atx pc onto its side to increase coolling performance (so that tower is upright)?
just wonderin.
Cheers
