Heatpipe Madness

Heat problems have plagued the XPPort-II (a.k.a. Portable Athlon II) due to the high-performance components that make up the system, while having too cramped a space to have sufficient cooling applied. The solution was to use heatpipes to move the heat to where it can be properly cooled. Read on to find out how this helped stability and overclocking.

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