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Heatpipe vs Water Cooling

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Heatpipes are showing up a lot more and some of them are huge. The Thermaltake Sonic Tower is 112X112X150 mm. Thats a good size for a radiator. How do these work and can one make a decent replacement for water cooling?
 
Heat pipes are nice but not as good as watercooling. I have the Thermalright XP90 and love it but going to install my watercooling setup soon for better overclocking.
 
heat pipes are mostly used to silent a system w/ out sacrificing performance, but if you plan on overclocking then go w/ water
 
If you could find a heatsink that used heatpipes the size of all the tubes in an average watercooling setup, the two might be comparable.
Likewise, a watercooling setup with room for only as much water as the liquid in heatpipes........ would suck.

Both are practical for different reasons.
 
I was using an XP-120 for a FX-55 for 1 month and switched to H20 cooling....tremendous difference.
 
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