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Answer» A recent Reviw posted newegg for a Heat Pipe CPU cooler ....note the User's experience level: Quote Core i7 User Tech Level: high Ownership: 1 day to 1 week This user purchased this item from Newegg 4/8/2009 3:01:24 PM Wow, Just wow Pros: Only $40, not $70. Cons: Okay, where do I begin. In order to fit this cooler into my case I broke off the top fin and sawed off the tops of the heat pipes. What I saw inside shocked me. Instead of full copper heatpipes, they were hollow on the inside with a thin layer of copper. I loaded up my system; Stock Heatsink Idle: around 35 degrees c idle, load 85. New (better) heatsink: reaches 70 degrees c idle, reached 110 degrees c before I pressed the button to turn it off. Other Thoughts: This is a piece of cheap hardware and I don't know why it did not work as splendidly as everybody elses did. I hope that, if you're are still buying this, that it works better for you. The worse part is I don't know if the manufacturer will honor the warranty due to the modifications I MADE. OK, I'm the guy who will oftentimes say, give the users a break, but this makes me, well... I wanna be there when he tries to "fly" the return under warranty. Some users get like that: legends in their own minds for whom the laws of physics no longer apply. Get a FAN / heatsink to fit the case? Not me! I'll modify it! I changed the surface area of the heatsink -- why doesn't it work correctly?? Heat Pipes contain inert gas to help them cool....i'd say at the point in time he picked up the hacksaw all bets we're off...OK - I just LEARNED something, too -- hence, the "thin copper" plating...because it left space for the inert gas... It's even worse than I thought. Excuse me while I get the otoscope to CHECK for the inert gas levels...between my ears! The doctor muttered something about, "off the scale..." and "New England Journal of Medicine..." ...maybe I'll be famous! Yes, it's frustrating when parts don't fit, but one should only take modifications so far -- best to sometimes wait the turnaround time to return and receive new parts!Find another Doctor if the prognosis isn't what you were looking for.... Quote Find another Doctor if the prognosis isn't what you were looking for.... LOL! Yes, I've had plenty of coworkers, in the past, who seemed to know these doctors who would come up with prescriptions for whatever they seemed to need...time off being the more popular of the non-pharmecuetical choices. Now, I just need to find a doctore who'll declare me a genius! That'll show that BC_Programmer! your just checking to see if I'm paying attention, aren't you? "Ok... so I bought this heat sink... yeah... and I hacked it up into little pieces... yeah... I don't understand why it doesn't work though." You know, I'd hate to say it, but... there are some people out there that there's just no hope for.Quaxo i somehow knew youl'd Love this one...... I once mailed a cat to my fictitious aunt flo. needless to say the box was too small and I was too familar with a hacksaw. Ended up having to buy another box. What- you didn't think I hacked the cat up did you?* So, the box gave it's life to defend the cat! They ship peanut butter in cardboard now...I should write a book. I'll call it "The Gene Pool: Tales from the Shallow End".

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A recent Reviw posted newegg for a Heat Pipe CPU cooler ....note the User's experience level:

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Core i7 User
Tech Level: high
Ownership: 1 day to 1 week
This user purchased this item from Newegg 4/8/2009 3:01:24 PM Wow, Just wow

Pros: Only $40, not $70.

Cons: Okay, where do I begin. In order to fit this cooler into my case I broke off the top fin and sawed off the tops of the heat pipes. What I saw inside shocked me. Instead of full copper heatpipes, they were hollow on the inside with a thin layer of copper. I loaded up my system;
Stock Heatsink Idle: around 35 degrees c idle, load 85.
New (better) heatsink: reaches 70 degrees c idle, reached 110 degrees c before I pressed the button to turn it off.

Other Thoughts: This is a piece of cheap hardware and I don't know why it did not work as splendidly as everybody elses did. I hope that, if you're are still buying this, that it works better for you. The worse part is I don't know if the manufacturer will honor the warranty due to the modifications I MADE.

OK, I'm the guy who will oftentimes say, give the users a break, but this makes me, well...

I wanna be there when he tries to "fly" the return under warranty. Some users get like that: legends in their own minds for whom the laws of physics no longer apply. Get a FAN / heatsink to fit the case? Not me! I'll modify it!
I changed the surface area of the heatsink -- why doesn't it work correctly?? Heat Pipes contain inert gas to help them cool....i'd say at the point in time he picked up the hacksaw all bets we're off...OK - I just LEARNED something, too -- hence, the "thin copper" plating...because it left space for the inert gas...

It's even worse than I thought.

Excuse me while I get the otoscope to CHECK for the inert gas levels...between my ears! The doctor muttered something about, "off the scale..." and "New England Journal of Medicine..."

...maybe I'll be famous!

Yes, it's frustrating when parts don't fit, but one should only take modifications so far -- best to sometimes wait the turnaround time to return and receive new parts!Find another Doctor if the prognosis isn't what you were looking for.... Quote

Find another Doctor if the prognosis isn't what you were looking for....

LOL! Yes, I've had plenty of coworkers, in the past, who seemed to know these doctors who would come up with prescriptions for whatever they seemed to need...time off being the more popular of the non-pharmecuetical choices.

Now, I just need to find a doctore who'll declare me a genius! That'll show that BC_Programmer! your just checking to see if I'm paying attention, aren't you? "Ok... so I bought this heat sink... yeah... and I hacked it up into little pieces... yeah... I don't understand why it doesn't work though."

You know, I'd hate to say it, but... there are some people out there that there's just no hope for.Quaxo i somehow knew youl'd Love this one...... I once mailed a cat to my fictitious aunt flo.
needless to say the box was too small and I was too familar with a hacksaw.

Ended up having to buy another box. What- you didn't think I hacked the cat up did you?*
So, the box gave it's life to defend the cat! They ship peanut butter in cardboard now...I should write a book. I'll call it "The Gene Pool: Tales from the Shallow End".

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