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[BigAl01]

Do you have pictures of impressive heat pipe assemblies?  I mean ones you took yourself.  No fair googling for images somebody else took.  Here is mine, from a motherboard I was using back in August 2006.  It's an ASUS ROG motherboard.

Check out those heat pipes!

[BigAl01]

Here is the box that motherboard came in.

One of the early Crosshair motherboards from ASUS.

[BigAl01]

Anyone else have a few pictures to contribute?  I know many of you have been building computers for a long time.  I started building my own around the year 2000.  Anyone remember the fear of Y2K?

Here's a Zalman CPU cooler from the 2006 era.  I has some heat pipes.

As the CPU speeds went up, the CPU coolers had to get bigger and start using heat pipes to transfer the thermal energy more efficiently.

[BigTacious]

that thing is soooo legendary. It cooled my first Athlon cpu in 2005 in my knockoff alienware case. 2gb of RAM and a 6800 gt, so good.

[BigAl01]

I had several computers running the 6800 GT video cards.  One even had two of them in SLI.  The 8800 GT was a better card.  I had one in my Osborne-Again-2 build for a while.

The 8800 GT AGP video card was a decent performer.