How Copper Heatpipes Are Made | China Factory Tour (Cooler Master)
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- čas přidán 20. 03. 2019
- We show how CPU cooler and GPU cooler copper heatpipes are made by Cooler Master in HuiZhou, China. These automated factories near Shenzhen make the heatpipes.
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Copper heatpipes contain liquid inside to accelerate heat dissipation by using the phase change to shed energy quickly. This video shows cross-sections of sintered copper heatpipes and talks about how much liquid (and what kind of liquid) is inside of a copper heatpipe. We also show the start-to-finish process of manufacturing heatpipes, which is part of the long process to make a CPU or GPU heatsink.
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Looks like it might be TIG welding, not soldering. We were told "soldering," but it was very likely a translation issue between English/Chinese.
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Gamers Nexus - Your "how it's made" factory videos are my favorite videos. Moar plz. And, thank you, Steve and GN crew.
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Its really in the name ... 😄
I don't understand how they can create a vacuum and not have the water change state to a gas, as water in a vacuum boils at room temperature.
@@ChimpyChamp They drop the pressure to a point before water will boil, so when heat is applied to the heatpipe it evaporates rapidly due to the high vapour pressure.
This video series is great. More factory/production tours. Try to see if Noctua will show you how they make air coolers that compete with water coolers.
I'd love to see that, as well!
Same here ;)
Agreed!
Noctua is far less efficient. Silence has its trade offs.
China is literally king in manufracturing ..
Wasn't expecting it to just dump a load of copper powder all over everything.
Welcome to China, it's a wildly different manufacturing world.
@@otm646 I'm hearing the movie trailer guy saying: "In a world... Where OSHA doesn't exist... And health code is an afterthought..."
@@hotaru25189 Well Steve did state that the excess powder is collected in a bin below, and is presumably put back into the top. I can guarantee they're not just throwing it out.
@@hotaru25189 The powder is collected and re-used, as stated in the video.
@@GamersNexus Video?
Closer and closer to the thermal paste video!
I love thermal paste. Can't get enough of it.
@@StefanEtienneTheVerrgeRep .... Do you use it as lube too and if so give us a Review on it
I have my tissue ready for that video.
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@@timserious7678 it has many uses!
4:50 "Copper can't be salvaged" Cody'sLab: hold my beer
It struck me a little bit that comment, envisioning failed heat pipes dumped in the landfill. Hopefully, it just meant, that it can't be salvaged at Cooler Master's factory, but it can be treated as scrap copper and recycled with furnace.
@@Murphistic Copper is expensive, someone probably buys the scrap from them. I hope, at least, seeing a resource get thrown out is painful to me
@@Murphistic I can pretty much promise that. There isn't anything that would be added that a recycling mill couldn't account for or add to specific alloys.
It absolutely can be salvaged. Copper.is so expensive to mine there is absolutely a procees to remove the impurities
The copper is recyclable. It won't be used to make pure copper, most likely, but it will most default be recycled. Copper is used in hundreds of different alloys, and there's always space for it. I think something got lost in translation, like them calling the tig welding, "soldering."
Neat that they let you actually try to bend some heat pipes.
Key word: Try.
@Gamers Nexus Could you do a video about custom/do it yourself coolers and heat pipe bending? There’s very little information in the area and you have all the connections...
@@GamersNexus I smirked a little when you said 'world's slowest assembly line'.
@@RyanAmparo-tl oh I LOL'd over that
I had no idea it was just distiller water. I figured it was some other chemical. Interesting.
Great video guys as always, thanks for the time and care you put into all your work.
Pure water won't react with copper, and it carries a lot of energy when it evaporates. Im curious how they make the flat pipes without blocking off the center opening.
@@davidgunther8428 they use mesh for the flat ones maybe?. and it's possible to leave short round end to let the water filled in
there are heatpipes/vapour chambers filled with other liquids that work in different temperature ranges. Its just that water is most optimal for this application.
Depending on how much air you evacuate, you can adjust the boiling point of the water.
No need for fancy Novec that boils at 40° under 1atm.
@@davidgunther8428 Carefully is how they do it, in testing was just a guy standing on them.
The copper is recyclable. It won't be used to make pure copper, most likely, but it will most default be recycled. Copper is used in hundreds of different alloys, and there's always space for it. I think something got lost in translation, like them calling the tig welding, "soldering."
Andrew Delashaw Exactly.
Any mineral which we find in the ground will have impurities in it and has to be refined in order to be usable. With that said, the process is not as simple as it is with steel where the slag can just be scrapped off the surface of the melted steel. In the case of copper, the process that requires a lot of electrical current and sulphuric acid. The copper is disolved by the acid and is then deposited on cathodes. This process is essentially the same as the one which is used to refine copper from raw ore.
I actually find it pretty surprising that they cannot just grind the failed pipes into poweder to use for sintering future heat pipes. I understand that the end result may not be pure enough to be recycled as pure copper but minor contaminants should be perfectly okay in the middle sintering because it only needs to be able to soak water.
You guys have the coolest jobs around, you know that?
They are the masters.
How its made: copper heatpipes, tech jesus edition.
Now I’m hearing that music again
@@uss_04 I've been hearing it from the get-go.
I was thinking the entire time "They should really get Steve to do their narration. He's a natural for this"
Thank you. I'm sure a lot of us really enjoy theses unique manufacturing videos that you guys take the time to produce.
Thanks for all of these factory tours GN Team. It's both informative and satisfying to watch, especially considering the fact that there are several levels of abstraction between something like a heatpipe and the products that we would see as consumers that incorporate them. It's easy to forget that every little thing in a computer has a story.
Thats something I always wanted to know TBH.
That's a lot more work and effort than I expected. Cool to see, thanks!
*See title*
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Thank you for this. You probably are the only YT channel that will ever tour a factory like this. This content is gold. Keep it up!
Hardware Canucks did the Gigabyte MB tour back in 2016 czcams.com/video/kwdQhv6WOfM/video.html . Several older vids out there from way back from defunct sites or ones I never heard of too.
Pretty neat to see how they do the sintering process. The image showing the sintered, grooved, and weave methods was especially cool. I didn't know there were multiple methods.
I'm loving this How It's Made series
what an amazing video. I've always wondered this. Great coverage on the whole process
I feel educated. Thank you so much, Steve.
This is incredibly cool! One of my favorite factory tours that you've done! :)
It's nice that the coolermaster relationship seems to have improved enough they're doing tours for you :)
Great content! After bumping, bashing, shaping and beating these around while making custom notebook heatsinks for the past couple of years it's great to finally see how these things are properly made in a factory.
Love seeing content like this! Definitely something that you don’t see much anywhere else for PC enthusiasts. Keep it up!
Y'all have some great content! It's nice to see what other youtubers would think dull but I bet everyone loves this type of content. Thanks guys, Keep it shill!
I watched this process on Brian's channel already, but I still watched this entire video. I'm the true hero the internet needs. You're welcome.
This was super intriguing. I just sit and become completely immersed when you guys go to different facilities and show us behind the scenes. Please keep making these types of videos! I love seeing these companies with boots on ground perspective about how it's made. Excellent content guys, keep it up!
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INSANELY INTERESTING!!! Thank you guys so much!
Thanks for these 'how it's made' videos - very cool...
Awesome work by the factory people and you guys for showing it.
That was such a cool video!!! Thank you for making it!
These tours are Epic and brilliant
I love this type of content. Great job!
Steve, it's your in depth analysis of cool shit like this that persuaded me to pursue a degree in computer engineering.
I am in 2nd year atm, and I just wanted to say thanks. Thanks for doing this channel. I appreciate the whole GN team very much.
I love these series - How it's made!
Thank you, Gamers Nexus!
Another worthwhile watch. Thanks Mr. Burke 👍🏼
This is the most interesting video series I've seen in a long time. GG Gamers Nexus!
Super cool. I love these factory videos. Great inside look into what goes into making the great products we use every day. I look forward to more!!!!!
Love the factory walkthroughs, so inspiring and interesting.
This is the coolest factory tour I've seen yet.
AWESOME was waiting for this one
Loving these informative videos!
This is amazing! :) Videos like this are always appreciated
loved this style video. thank you!
Very productive trip Steve and team.
Well done!
Love these factory tour videos
This is splendid. Thank you
Thanks to Cooler Master and Gamers Nexus great video
Very cool of CoolerMaster to have you guys there. They are without a doubt the best option for mid grade coolers.
awesome video, really enjoyed it!
I like the random pieces of tape here and there holding machines together. Reminds me of someone i know.
The tape isn't holding any machines together. It is there to cushion the work, or add some friction to the flow.
Good guy GN makes video that ends up just shy of 10 minutes and doesn't add fluff to push it over
Given that, how they got Buildzoid in the mix i'll never know! ;)
I actually work at a business in NA that manufactures industrial sized heat pipes. This manufacturing process is SO much more stream lined than what we do.
Love this type of stuff. Thanks GN
These are fascinating, I hope you get more opportunities to do these kinds of factory tours.
loving these manufacturing videos!
Very high quality content lately. Keep it up
Thank you, Steve. Very Cool.
I dunno why but i absolutely love these videos.
Im loving these factory tours tbh
Didn't know there were 3 types of designs, I thought it was just, weave w/water, or nothing at all and some low boiling point fluid.
This content is great and it's awesome you guys are getting the opportunity to do this.
I'm pretty sure that's a tig welder tbh
Yeah that's definitely not soldering lol
Yeah looks like TIG.
Yep. It looks like a off the shelves welder that is just attached using a custom clamp. Which is excellent, and easy to replace with a new tip or holder.
I've TIG welded copper. Talk about drawing some current. The welder just hums when you're welding copper. Copper is pretty low resistance.
Ok these factory tours are awesome.
My V8 GTS and LM got my FX-8350 to only start to thermal throttle at 4.96GHz (95*C)
Really cool to see it in the thumbnail and how it was made.
Amazing content as always.
Great that you make Factory Tours, they are very interesting 👍😊
Yay~ free study tour!
No seriously, i love these factory tour videos.
Best episode of How its made i've ever seen.
This was a great video. :D More of these please!
great video, and fascinating process
I love factory tours!
Great video, this was very interesting to see :)
By far your most interesting videos for me
I love these "How Its Made" videos. Keep it up!
Sounds like it was a refreshing tour.
This China series has been fantastic. I was even wondering about this just the other day.
This is very much like the process they use to make condenser and evaporator coils in your AC/heat pumps systems. Most manufacturers use the grooved tubes but have to be careful how the grooves are spaced or on the 90 and 180 degree bends the refrigerant will wear through the groove on the outer radius and cause a leak. When the industry went to these grooved tubes to raise efficiency with the advent of R-410a it was a real problem with evap coils springing leaks after just a few years rather than the designed 20+ year lifespan. I've always found these "passive" systems interesting because of how well they work for such a simple design with no compressor to circulate the refrigerant or change it's state back from a gas to a liquid
BTW the process used to reduce (or increase) the ends is called swaging .... It's also used in the AC/heat pump industry to couple two tubes saving cost of having to use a coupling and also reduces the chances of a leak by 50% because you only have to make one solder/weld instead of two with a coupling
Very interesting! I would like to see how the heat pipes are then combined with fins to make complex cooler designs though. It's hard to work out how on earth they managed to do it at mass scale. The engineers who design and set up these machines must be very talented!
For CPU coolers they could use something similar to this video, the heatpipes are held to the same press that makes the heatsink sections czcams.com/video/BBB2rChWxmE/video.html
that tour was very satisfactory .
Watching you two trying to bend the heat pipes reminded me of working at the BMW plant when we had visitors come in. Hour over every time lol 😂 but it was definitely entertaining and broke up the monotony of a normal work day.
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Really like these manufacture videos.
I love these manufacturing videos.,
Thank you a lot for this video ! I learned a lot !
Pretty cool, and the more we know the better.
Awesome stuff!
Impressive stuff, and by that I mean this channel's high quality content. Actually beats most traditional broadcast media.
Its amazing series of videos. Pleas keep it up
Such great videos!
Never ever thought there were SO MANY steps and work on those shiny copper heat pipes. I'll appreciate them even more next time I lose myself staring at my gorgeous 1080ti... Dem Pipes 😈
"world's slowest assembly line". Yup, first genuine laugh since that war broke out. Glad I watched this. I actually learned something! I'll be digging to see what else you got. Keep up the good work, Nexus!
these tour videos are great
Instantly looked at my GPU with massive heatpipes and noticed how they are bent. Wow, thanks for the video!
Simple invention, but outstanding performance.
Thank you very much for a material!
Thank you.
I've wondered how exactly they make these pipes, even though I know how its done, so it was interesting to see what methods they use. ..really didn't expect it to just dump the sinter like that though.
True quality content
This was really good.
love seeing this stuff.
More amazing stuff like this please yeah man that's what we want!, Next how CPUs & GPUs are actually made.
Heatpipes are great; such a simple working mechanism, yet they can transfer heat many times up to hundreds of times faster than copper. Pretty neat