Do heat pipes make a difference?

[SupersonicSaint]

I'm looking at some laptop internals and I have seen a laptop with two heat pipes and one with one heat pipe. If you have no GPU in the laptop and only 1 fan, does having 2 make any difference. It's still just 1 measly fan cooling the CPU do what benefit does splitting it in 2 do, if anything? I can imagine both would thermal throttle just the same if you played the Witcher on it.

 

Thanks!

[Guest]

The heat pipes add to surface area to dissipate BTU.

Hotter the cpu and gpu, the bigger the heatsink needs to be.

You can convert the cpu/gpu wattage to BTU actually to get a better idea of what you are dissipating.

[Tristerin]

Surface Area as noted above.  When I buy air coolers I care quite about on how many heat pipes it has

[SupersonicSaint]

1 hour ago, ShrimpBrime said:

The heat pipes add to surface area to dissipate BTU.

Hotter the cpu and gpu, the bigger the heatsink needs to be.

You can convert the cpu/gpu wattage to BTU actually to get a better idea of what you are dissipating.

Thanks for the replies. However, why not have a wider single heat pipe over 2 heat pipes. What is the advantage? Also, would the Lenovo perform better than the Zenbook at cooling from looking at these two images?

[Guest]

11 minutes ago, SupersonicSaint said:

Thanks for the replies. However, why not have a wider single heat pipe over 2 heat pipes. What is the advantage? Also, would the Lenovo perform better than the Zenbook at cooling from looking at these two images?

 

 

I cannot answer that because I do not design them. 

 

But from the looks of these 2 pictures, both designs may be able to dissipate similar BTU.

 

Heat pipes are kind of like water pipes. The heat is carried to a location where dissipation fins and fan are located, much like a water cooler carries water to radiator.