do heat pipes count as liquid cooling and if not why not
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@Felthry if liquid cooling is classified as "anything that uses a circulating fluid to move thermal energy", then they don't qualify.
imo they're solid state cooling? but this is just from hobbiest-level tinkering, idk if it's anything official...
@eryn they do use a circulating fluid though? it evaporates at one end of the tube, expands as a gas to the other end, where it's cooled by the heatsink, condenses, and is brought back to the hot end by capillary action
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@Felthry they don't because that'd be confusing, liquid coolers have a pump
@Felthry I think of passive phase change as it's own category?
I'd think evaporative liquid cooling, given how they work.
@Felthry I remember people talking about heat pipes when we were in grad school and liquid cooling came up
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