In alt.comp.hardware.pc-homebuilt Mac Cool wrote:

Frank McCoy:

Heat-pipes are relatively simple devices.

Are you using one like you describe on your computer?

Hell no!
WAY too expensive.
My fan-cooled heatsink keeps my CPU at a comfortable 47C and my chassis
is at an even cooler 40C. Why would I put a huge device like a heatpipe
in a system working that well?

If I was building a super-dooper Gaming machine with quad processors
pulling 75 watts, I might think of such as being preferable to a water
cooled and pumped device. It would be more efficient, quieter, and
simpler; though probably not cheaper.

SOME motherboards actually come with heatpipe devices built in/on.
But usually that's for the fancy chipset, not the CPU.

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