Anyone use a Dreamcast heat pipe?

IsaacKuo · Post 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?

Trip · Post 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.

wsc · Post 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

einolu · Post by **einolu** » Sun Feb 08, 2004 9:22 am

Wow, the dreamcast used heatpipes? Cool, segas consols were always ahead of their time...

~EO

rp · Post 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...

einolu · Post 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...

~EO

lm · Post by lm » Sun Feb 08, 2004 3:07 pm

I thought that they were used in laptops for long time before anywhere else.

aston · Post 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.

IsaacKuo · Post 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!