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IsaacKuo
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by IsaacKuo » Sun Feb 08, 2004 5:40 am
Just curious--I know next to nothing about heat pipes, and would have no idea how to make a good heat pipe system from scratch. However, I do have an extra Dreamcast which has a heat pipe to cool the GPU. Has anyone tried using one of these to cool a GPU or CPU?
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Trip
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by Trip » Sun Feb 08, 2004 5:45 am
haha, just get a zalman VGA cooler.
Best of luck if you go with the dreamcast cooler though.
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wsc
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by wsc » Sun Feb 08, 2004 7:07 am
I say give it a shot, recycling parts out of old electronics is really cool IMO
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einolu
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by einolu » Sun Feb 08, 2004 9:22 am
Wow, the dreamcast used heatpipes? Cool, segas consols were always ahead of their time...
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by rp » Sun Feb 08, 2004 12:28 pm
einolu wrote:Wow, the dreamcast used heatpipes? Cool, segas consols were always ahead of their time...
Erhmm heatpipes arent exactly new to the world of electronics...
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by einolu » Sun Feb 08, 2004 2:26 pm
but they are in the sense of gpu cooling, anyway, im just saying how sony is ahead of its time, with the saturn and the dreamcast...
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lm
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by lm » Sun Feb 08, 2004 3:07 pm
I thought that they were used in laptops for long time before anywhere else.
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by aston » Mon Feb 09, 2004 3:23 pm
einolu wrote:but they are in the sense of gpu cooling, anyway, im just saying how sony is ahead of its time, with the saturn and the dreamcast...
I think you mean Sega.
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IsaacKuo
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by IsaacKuo » Mon Feb 09, 2004 3:38 pm
Well anyways...
...I can't think of where I'd use a heat pipe anyway. My case is a homebrew so it's not hard to use ducting to make air go where I need, rather than use a heat pipe to draw heat to where the air is. I guess I'll keep it in mind if I ever try my hand at a fanless computer.
Thanks for the thoughts!