Noob question..sorry but is the AC7 / 64 water cooled?

[Jtumble2]

I was looking at the AC64 (I have an AMD 64) and I saw the prongs or whatever coming off the sides of the fan..Just wondering because I was going to buy this but I dont have any water cooling or whatever..

Thanks for puttin up with me lol.

 

[900RR]

No it's not, those are just copper heat pipes that bring the heat up from the base and spread it to the aluminum fins

 

[Jtumble2]

Sweet, thanks

 

[gurusan]

lol yeah those are heatpipes. They do have a fluid inside them though that evaporates at the heatsource, moves up the pipe where it's cooled by the aluminum fins...and then once cold enough it turns back into a liquid and drops back down to the heatsource where it evaporates again...and the cycle continues