Quote Originally Posted by SKYMTL View Post
Yes and no.

The main benefit of a vapor chamber is surface area. With a typical heatpipe setup, the pipes themselves only make minimal contact with the cooling fins. Thus, the effective transfer of heat from pipe to fin can become a bottleneck in the cooling process.

With a vapor chamber ALL of the cooling fins make equal contact with the top surface of the condensation chamber. This means even distribution of heat over a larger area which in turn leads to higher cooling efficiency. Think of the chamber as a giant, flattened heatpipe.
This reminds me of a old CPU cooler.

http://www.legitreviews.com/article/257/3/

Vapochill micro. It basically was a vapo chamber with heat pipes and fins.

It quickly was outpaced and no designs really took off for it.