What happened to "Heatlane"?

[bluefront]

My very first Scythe heatsink used this "heatlane" technology. It was hailed as the next great step in heatsink design......and was sold and marketed as a fanless heatsink. There was no provision for a fan at all. Since then all Scythe heatsinks are made to use a fan.....and the "heatlane" has vanished. What happened to it?

[coolanter]

I think the heatlane is too expensive and heatpipes are the better way to transfer the energy today. But if scythe build a cpu-cooler with heatlane in the future, i will be very happy.

[Vitali]

I think the heatlane is too expensive and heatpipes are the better way to transfer the energy today

Exactly. Thanks.

[Shinigami]

Hi,

We are working on the Heatlane Technology for a couple years. Yet the performance and use of it is not what we are satisfied with as a new product. We did not give up the idea but for now there is not new Heatlane cooler developed, which could make it into a product. LeT's hope that we can have a new item that performs well.

Greetings,
Andy

[bluefront]

I am interested in fanless heatsink operation.....that's why I ask about "heatlane" technology. In my opinion.....the original heatlane design was flawed, in that the heatlane did not have very good contact with the copper heatsink base. A new implementation of this design should have the heatlane itself, making direct contact with the CPU heat spreader (much like newer heatpipe designs).

The first time I assembled my NCU1000 (I think thats the model #), I could see that the heat transfer between the base and the heatlane assembly could be improved. I still have this heatsink.....and tried it out recently on a P4-3.4. Even with the addition of a 120mm fan, it's performance is lacking.

But I think it could be made to work better than a similar sized heat-pipe model......and could make true fanless operation on newer chips, a real possibility. I for one, am willing to pay the price for such an improved design.