We label engines as liquid cooled vs air cooled as well even though liquid cooled engines have a water->air heat exchanger. It’s about the primary coolant. I do get your point about heatpipes, though.
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A very good point!
Neither aircooled nor liquid cooled engines will survive without airflow, but the liquid coolers also need the coolant and the pump.
AFAIK we used to make a distinction between heatsinks and heatpipes, when heatpipes were a novelty. But now it’s just ’aircooler’. 
Well, it had heatpipes and those contain a coolant liquid. 
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Unless you’re running open loop liquid cooling. e.g. Submerged marine engine, electric motors…
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Reasons to sell the house and live on a boat #3571:
- unlimited open loop liquid cooling for onboard gaming PC
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The oceans are warm enough as is. 
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True, good thinking - might not be a long term cooling solution! 
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Goblin’s Geothermal heat pump cooled PC: “All the cool kids are doing it.”
Get yours today!
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LOL! And, there’s that…
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One added advantage of a High End Thermal case and liquid cooling is the fact my tower weighs 75 US pounds ! LoL !
If someone were to break in while we were away, ( Doing so while I was home would simply by a major error in judgement) and try to grab my tower and run, it would be easy to catch them, because at 75 # s , their hands , arms, and probably Shoulders would still be here , where the ripped off from the unexpected weight of my tower .
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Which case are you guys and gals using?
As I see a future upgrade for VR.
This is the case I went with.
Its huge, but I have had no issues with it.
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My case is an oldie that I’m not even sure you could get anymore (or would want for that matter). It’s a Cooler Master HAFX.
Old nzxt phantom here. It’s like 8 years old? 9? 10? Which reminds me so is my PSU… Crazy. Only two remaining parts from the original build other than the fans I think.
Do you fly X-Plane11? I couldn’t get it to run stably at 5GHz. Had to drop back to 4.8.
HPN was a HAF932 - great series of cases for the time, couldn’t upcycle due to lack of radiator headroom (which is a problem in a lot of even current cases except super towers).
That was my old case as well, loved that one.
Sold my old build to a friend and he’s still rockin’ it.
Felt like it was much sturdier build than newer cases (like thicker steel perhaps, can’t be sure) I have viewed in-store.
Both my builds are now in Corsair 750D Airflow cases, also sported by @AndyE!
I had problems with this as well, but it works now. Don’t know if it was the latest 11.5 update or if it happened in an earlier update.
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Just installed my shiny new ( I mean silent new ) NOCTUA NH-U12S, what a difference!
I mean I used boxed CPUs in the past and it was OK, at least thats what I thought.
The temp is around 50 in XP11 (loading and playing). I reached quite often 75 at loading.
Great fit in my mATX case
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This CPU i7 9700 was the first one I cooled with a Noctua fan and I’ve been VERY pleased with the performance.
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