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Mobo Heatpipes On Heatsinks?

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  • Heatsinks
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June 24, 2014 6:58:52 AM

I'm a cooling junkie, but for the life of me, I can't figure out why there are heatpipes on the mobo that go seemingly from one hot chipset to another hot chipset. It seems like it would go from the bottom to the top of it's own heat sink.... I might be missing something important here, but it seems like having the heatpipes on there would just bring all the chipsets to an equilibrium temperature combining all their heat with the heatshedding capability of all their heat sinks. And that doesn't seem very useful, unless like I said, I'm missing something...

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June 24, 2014 2:32:26 PM

I've often wondered the same thing. I suppose, like you say, the hottest chip will lose some heat to the coolest chip... or to the open air between heatsyncs. But I really just assumed it was for looks and marketing. The MB on my other rig has that too: http://us.msi.com/product/mb/785GME65.html
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June 25, 2014 6:10:46 AM

Yeah, it would make sense if the heat sinks were somewhere other than right on top of the chip, but they're already there, so a heat pipe seems unnecessary. Oh well, it does look nice ;) 
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