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does anyone know if a motherboard with a heat pipe can be mounted upside down?
NightGod:
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That's exacly why I said "can" affect =) Yeah, if you have a good quality one, you should have no problems, but I wouldn't want to risk it on a cheap one. And I'd rather make a more expensive one more efficient by not mounting it vertical.
elvis:
--- Quote from: u_rebelscum on September 25, 2006, 04:52:13 am --- If the capillary force can't overcome gravity, then it wouldn't work.
--- End quote ---
In the last 5 years of dealing with PC cooling and in particular the popular emergence of heat pipes in a variety of devices, I've not yet come across one where the "capillary force" as you call it cannot overcome the force of gravity. Particularly when you consider that you are talking about a change in density of only a few percent. Such a poorly designed item could never pass the quality standards needed by motherboard and CPU manufacturers.
I would seriously hope that such poor performing devices never make it to market. Again, I've never seen one myself, despite having seen thousands of these devices pass under my nose in the last few years.
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