Heat pipes

[remzy]

I wonder if anyone happens to know how much 4 vs 5 heat pipe cpu air coolers affect's preformance. Let's say that the cooler size is same with 4 or 5 heat pipes installed. Is there any preformance increase with 5 heat pipes, and even if there is some is it worth the extra cost?

[Tedster]

1 minute ago, remzy said:

I wonder if anyone happens to know how much 4 vs 8 heat pipe cpu air coolers affect's preformance. Let's say that the cooler size is same with 4 or 8 heat pipes installed. Is there any preformance increase with 8 heat pipes, and even if there is some is it worth the extra cost?

The number of heatpipes isn't going to be directly related to the cooling performance.

I'd suggest you look up performance comparisons between specific tower heatsinks.

[HPWebcamAble]

Depends on what you're cooling.

 

What CPU were you thinking about? Are you going to OC it?

[KezzaMcFezza]

More heat pipes = more heat transfer to the heatsink fins. It helps alot when you have a high TDP CPU like a i7 5960X or and AMD CPU as they tend to be hotter.

 

Hope this helps

[Moonzy]

heatpipe is only meant to transfer heat to the fins, its the fins doing the heat dissipation to the environment task

if there are too much heatpipe and too little fins, then the cooling performance wont be any better

likewise, if there are too many fins but not enough heatpipe to move the heat from the cpu to the fins, the cooling performance wont be any better even if you add more fins

 

so there's a balance between them

[remzy]

People I've just realized that I have typed 4 vs 8 but actually I've meant 4 vs 5. 
The one with 4 heatpipes is 10€= 11.267130 USD
https://www.willhaben.at/iad/kaufen-und-verkaufen/d/coolermaster-cpu-kuehler-sockel-775-156200248/

The one with 5 heatpipes is 14€=  15.772790 USD
https://www.willhaben.at/iad/kaufen-und-verkaufen/d/cpu-kuehler-775-sockel-158649743/

Is the one with 5 heatpipes worth the extra cost and bulk?
I'm planing to overclock my Q8300.
I dont know to which frequency and voltages because I've never done it before, but there are many tutorials on the internet.

[rich1187]

I would recommend this cooler. It's really good for price/performance. I, myself have tested this scythe cooler and it's really quiet and reduces the heat significantly.

48 minutes ago, remzy said:

The one with 5 heatpipes is 14€=  15.772790 USD
https://www.willhaben.at/iad/kaufen-und-verkaufen/d/cpu-kuehler-775-sockel-158649743/

 

[remzy]

47 minutes ago, rich1187 said:

I would recommend this cooler. It's really good for price/performance. I, myself have tested this scythe cooler and it's really quiet and reduces the heat significantly.

Thanks for your opinion. I think i'll take this one because the one that costs 10€ has some gap in the middle that should improve proformance but I'm not so sure abot it.

[LogicalDrm]

6 hours ago, remzy said:

People I've just realized that I have typed 4 vs 8 but actually I've meant 4 vs 5. 
The one with 4 heatpipes is 10€= 11.267130 USD
https://www.willhaben.at/iad/kaufen-und-verkaufen/d/coolermaster-cpu-kuehler-sockel-775-156200248/

The one with 5 heatpipes is 14€=  15.772790 USD
https://www.willhaben.at/iad/kaufen-und-verkaufen/d/cpu-kuehler-775-sockel-158649743/

Is the one with 5 heatpipes worth the extra cost and bulk?
I'm planing to overclock my Q8300.
I dont know to which frequency and voltages because I've never done it before, but there are many tutorials on the internet.

You can't compare heatpipes on those two. They have so different fin layout and dimensions. As said before, surface area of fins has bigger impact than amount of heatpipes. Usually those two are related. More surface area, more heatpipes. So more is better. With just 4€ difference, I would get bigger one.