Are Vapor Chambers as good as the hype?

[atavax]

With the marketing around vapor Chambers in the xbonex and them existing on high end video cards, I'm curious why I don't hear about them in CPU air coolers. With the growing popularity of AIOs and copper heatsinks having a comeback, I think it's unlikely that they would be too expensive for the market. Are they so common we just don't see it mentioned because it's assumed? Or is there a feature in modern desktops that minimize the usefulness of them on CPUs?

[Enderman]

Same thing as a heat pipe.

I think they just change the shape a little, make it wider or whatever.

[tp95112]

Because its easier to just cool a heatsink rather then enclosing the  heatsink and blowing a fan through them. It will be massive and probably lose alot more surface area. It works on graphics cards because its already a long card so just slap a heatsink on it enclose it and put a blower fan on it

[Coaxialgamer]

 

[Bananasplit_00]

they are expensive and not needed in almost all cases. direct heatpipes are good enough as it is and adding a vapor chamber for a coupple of degrees better preformance isnt worth the cost outside of super high end stuff where money isnt much of a problem

[atavax]

I understand that they're expensive, but it seems like if it could lower temps by more than like 2 degrees than comparable air coolers it would be competing with AIOs' performance without the risk of catastrophic failure, and a lot of people would pay like $150-$200 for that.