Originally Posted by DaKarMaul

One thing I noticed with the Prescott cpus in the dell servers is that (except for the 1U or 2U rack systems) they all use a heat sink that utilizies a heat pipe. I was a little surprised to see that as Intels reference design is just a traditional heat sink with a fan.

Originally Posted by George Knighton

On the 400SC, the 3.2 Northwood and higher MHz chips also use a heat pipe heatsink.