chrismeyer6 wrote on 2022-07-18, 16:00:
From my understanding this is how a heat pipe system works. The heat boils the fluid and pushes the fluid vapor to the colder region of the heat pipe. The colder region, which is typically coupled to a heat sink, is known as “the Condenser”. The fluid gives up its latent heat and condenses back to a liquid, and is again absorbed in the wick structure.
Not trying to start a fight but can you cite your proof that MSI's system has no wick or working fluid? If that whole setup was just for show the temps would be awful and I would think that would of been discovered back in the day with all the reviews on the board.
If you can read Dutch, here's a forum post from 9 years ago where someone broke his and nothing came out:
https://gathering.tweakers.net/forum/list_messages/1552867
In that topic I also mention a friend (an admittedly biased, as he worked for Gigabyte at the time) having shown me that the "VRM" part of the heatsink on one of those MSI rollercoaster boards didn't even make contact with the VRMs, although hearsay and quoting myself hardly qualifies as hardest of evidence.
And as for temps awful - these fancy boards didn't overclock one bit better than boards with simple, effective discrete heatsinks. Take a look here:
https://www.techspot.com/article/61-intel-p35 … dup/page24.html
(no MSI due to them getting cold feet about the comparison...)
The P5K Deluxe with its rollercoaster clocked highest, but differences were small and despite higher clock it didn't actually manage to perform better in most benchmarks. Best score in SuperPi even came from a cheapo ECS P35T-A with minimal pipeless heatsinks, and in case of the three Gigabyte boards that differed basically only in heatsinks, max stable clock was exactly the same and the one without any heatsinks performed best in four out of eight overclocking benchmarks.
Here is a roundup of P35 boards that all have heatpipes and does include the P35 Platinum.
https://techreport.com/review/12747/five-flav … press-compared/
The P35 Platinum performs essentially identically to the Gigabyte GA-P35-DQ6 covered in the previous review.
I stand by my statement that these extravagant heatsinks had no functional use, and that there was definitely one MSI rollercoaster board that had absolutely nothing in the hollow 'heatpipe'. You could cut all the pipes on a board and it would still work just as well.