[SOLVED] If i use an air cooler should my case be positioned horizontally?

[marcoschivo]

As far as i know inside the heat pipes there is water, or some sort of liquid, that lands above the cpu. These heat pipes (as far as i know, watching youtube videos and reading some articles) should stay vertically because the water is at the bottom due to the gravital force where the heat source is, and during the process of heating the water become gas and goes up, cool a bit and goes down as water, and the process continue, but if my case is vertically the heat pipes are horizontally and the water is not landing above the cpu but is spread inside all the pipes, and it should not work! Is there something i am missing?

 

[Lutfij]

Welcome to the forums, newcomer!

That will depend on the mounting for your cooler. Make and model of the cooler, motherboard, processor and ram as well as the case you're talking about? We can move forward from there.

 

[marcoschivo]

Welcome to the forums, newcomer!

That will depend on the mounting for your cooler. Make and model of the cooler, motherboard, processor and ram as well as the case you're talking about? We can move forward from there.

I am not following 😆 does it depend on the model and make of all the components? Because to me all the air coolers look the same to me 💫 they have heat pipes and bla bla bla...

 

[madmatt30]

Orientation is irrelevant,gravity doesn't come into the equation with cooler heat pipes around 5 inches long , it's completely dependant on natural convection and internal pressure inside the heat pipes.

You're absolute fine in either orientation.

 

[Karadjgne]

Gravity plays an extremely minor role, so minor as to be basically non-existant.
In an aircooler with heatpipes, there is indeed a liquid inside those hollow copper pipes. But the whole thing works on a thermo-chemical process. The base heats the liquid, which is thermally sensitive like the red stuff in an old fashioned thermometer. The liquid starts turning to gas, which expands and travels towards the tip of the pipes. Near the tips, the pipes have been receiving cooler airflow across the vanes, so are colder than the base, the liquid starts returning to a liquid state, gets pushed back towards the base by the incoming expanding gas.

Rinse and repeat in a constant flow. It's not so much direct thermal movement of the cpu energy up the heatpipes that makes them effective, but the constant absorption of the cpu energy by the liquid and the evaporation/condensation process.

So you could mount the cooler upside-down and it'll still work.