Heat Pipes for Cooling the PS3

[ehandlr]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heat_pipe#Limitations


just a little info on them since its came up a few times.

 

[Mark]

could this not have been posted in one of the places where it was mentioned?

 

[ehandlr]

it would have been off topic..as the heat pipes discussion was a derail within itself. but I'm sure it would not have mattered.

 

[Adamaniac 791]

That's not good, what if the conditions weren't right and all of the coolant evaporated? That would be £425 right down the pan...

 

[ehandlr]

Thats not exactly how it works. The pipes are built to support temperatures well above their evaporating point. All high end PC's use this. My Alienware uses this.

 

[renegadeviking]

Well, Xbox 360 has a manual and it specifically says to give Xbox 360 "room for oxygen" where the worse place to have it is in a enclosed cabinet. Want me to scan it for reference?

PS3 would have simular heat debates and would likely to have the same description in it's own manual word for word.

 

[bradas]

yer, im pretty sure that the PS3 will have this warning written down somewhere, i have my 360 on top of a dvd player, below a glass shelf and its fine lol!

 

[ehandlr]

PS3 will have more heat issues with a built in power supply.