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Hey GIGABYTE Geeks. What is GIGABYTE Silent Pipe technology and how does it work?
-Ted H. from Tulsa, Ok USA

Thanks for the question Ted. To put it simply, GIGABYTE Silent Pipe technology provides soundless heat-pipe cooling, that together with GIGABYTE Crazy Cool Technology, enhances the efficiency of heat dissipation from the Chipsets and CPU power components, delivering added system stability and silent operation. In addition, GIGABYTE has developed the revolutionary Silent Pipe II cooling technology for GIGABYTE-branded VGA cards and I will talk about this a little later.

  
     
  GIGABYTE Silent Pipe  
 


GIGABYTE has designed an unique system of heatsinks covering the MOSFET modules, the north bridge as well as the south bridge that effectively dissipates heat without the use of fans.

Silent Pipe Technology integrated on the GIGABYTE GA-965P-DQ6

 
 
As you can see from the photo above, the copper heatsinks cover the entire area of the chipsets as well as the fin-shaped heat sinks covering the MOSFETs, with a series of copper tubing connecting them all together.
  
       
 

Inside the copper tubing is another tube that contains a wick structure. This structure contains a filament that conducts heat from the heatsinks. The rest of the wick structure is filled with purified water and lined with a specially designed porous material that allows the wick to breathe, similar to the way your skin cells let water in and out.

  
 


Crazy Cool Heat Flow

When the various chips start generating heat, the filament inside the wick structure begins to transfer this heat energy to the water. The water then becomes hot enough to cause it to vaporize. Once vaporized, the water vapor escapes through the tiny pores in the wick structure and then comes in contact with the outer tubing and the specially designed cooling fins. These cooling fins have a large surface area, with the fins spread out so that they have maximum contact with the cooler, outer air as well as the air blown from the CPU fan. When the water vapor comes in contact with these surfaces, it cools down and again becomes a liquid, where it then repeats the process.

 
 

This evaporation and liquefying allows for a very effective dispersal heat energy. In the thermal image of the GIGABYTE GA-965P-DQ6 motherboard below, notice how the MOSFETs remain a cool 43◦ C.
  
 


DQ6 Maximum MOSFET Surface Temp. is 43◦ C

 
     
 

GIGABYTE Crazy Cool

  
 
GIGABYTE Crazy Cool is an aluminum CPU fan fasten mechanism that enhances heat dissipation of the rear side of the CPU and north bridge of the motherboard. Featuring a heatsink with a thermal pad between itself and the motherboard, GIGABYTE Crazy Cool spreads and directs the heat downwards, away from the CPU area and into the case and the rest of the motherboard.
  
 
 
 

Effectively distributing the heat across the PCB and case allows users to enjoy longer component lifetime through lower temperatures and absolute silence combined with the ultimate thermal performance on chipsets, CPU power components and the PCB. This also directly improves stability and overclocking ability of your system. In addition, effectively distributing the heat across the motherboard prevents the PCB from bending and warping due to high temperatures.

Featured on GIGABYTE DS4 and DQ6 series of motherboards, GIGABTE Silent Pipe and Crazy Cool technologies provide unequalled motherboard cooling without noisy fans or perishable moving parts.

  
     
  GIGABYTE VGA Silent Pipe II Technology  
 


GIGABYTE has also developed a specialized cooling technology for their range of VGA cards called Silent Pipe II Technology. Using the temperature difference between the outside of the chassis, Silent Pipe II creates a natural convection system that effectively transfers the heat to the outside of the chassis without the need for fan on the VGA. To learn more about GIGABYTE Silent Pipe II technology for VGA cards, please visit the GIGABYTE Silent Pipe II webpage.

  
     
 
   
 
 
 
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