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Heat pipe case

I don't remember the exact price but I believe it was over $1000.
 
over 1k eh? damn..

i cant find anything on zalmans site either..

ahh.. i found something on gagshardware.. :rolleyes:
$1,400 retail...

and its called the Zalman TNN-500A
 
Originally posted by Xeese
Nothing like baking your RAM since they won't have airflow.
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just put large heatsinks on them..

however.. it looks as if it is only capable of disapating up to 150 watts of heat for the cpu and 50 on a gpu.

what are chips putting out nowadays?
 
Toms had a review of them. Said that if you want to overclock you should point a table fan at the side! :p
 
Originally posted by Jason711
just put large heatsinks on them..

however.. it looks as if it is only capable of disapating up to 150 watts of heat for the cpu and 50 on a gpu.

what are chips putting out nowadays?
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average p4 puts out about 80 watts IIRC...however that case will not dissapate nearly 150 watts, thats a mathmatical max...i would never put my processor through that
 
I cant see the blistering heat put off by my processor being dissapated by three little sets of heatpipes attached to the side of a case. What would be really cool is a thermal image of the temperature ranges on the case to see how well evenly the heat is dissapated in the case wall. For some reason I picture only mediumish sized circles around where the heatpipes attach to the case. I'd say that was a complete waste of money, IMHO. Thats taking "heatpipe technology" a little too far. I still wish there was a review of it in english so I could see CPU temps and OC results with it, tho. Would be interresting if I were wrong and it actually does do a good job cooling a CPU. Still not $1,400 interresting, tho.
 
I guarantee that Zalman did not intend to beat the performance of the best heatsinks. This case is made for fanless operation, not overclocking, not better cooling.
 
i dont think anyone would ever buy that if it didnt come down to >$300

most ppl that want quiet systems go watercooling and others buy quiet HSF's and fans w/ a rheobus

just my opinion...
 
it may be a mathimatical maximum... but what if they physcially put it through that test to come up with the results?

im willing to bet if the side of the case had a greater surface area (more fins) it wouldnt disapoint..
 
i think it looks slick...but like others have said, i want to see an english review on it and see some temps. before i say it's good or bad.

however i do knowi will be quiet :p
 
Originally posted by SlickJesus
i think it looks slick...but like others have said, i want to see an english review on it and see some temps. before i say it's good or bad.

however i do knowi will be quiet :p
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i think its sweet... but not $1400 sweet...
 
Personally, I think this case would be useless fot the common [H]ard guy. The only purpose I can see is as the _ultimate_ studio computer... slap a olid-state HD in there and will run @ 0 db... 0db... think about how any studio would go kill for that...

But for O/Cing and such it's probably no good, seeing that it is 100% passive... and who pays $1400 anyway?
 
Originally posted by Little Grabbi
Personally, I think this case would be useless fot the common [H]ard guy. The only purpose I can see is as the _ultimate_ studio computer... slap a olid-state HD in there and will run @ 0 db... 0db... think about how any studio would go kill for that...

But for O/Cing and such it's probably no good, seeing that it is 100% passive... and who pays $1400 anyway?
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i believe a solid state HD comes as an option with the case..

however the clickity clack of high performance drives would get annoying.. aswell as the spinning of optical drives..

i dunno.. perhaps you could put some dynomat stuff in it..
 
It's a liquid cooling system, by some definitions. It uses a liquid with a low boiling point.
 
Originally posted by ST|FFY
i dont think anyone would ever buy that if it didnt come down to >$300

most ppl that want quiet systems go watercooling and others buy quiet HSF's and fans w/ a rheobus

just my opinion...
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A fan will always make a sound.
 
Originally posted by Bennyb
Woulda been nice if they had given us some temp readings on the cpu EH?
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Yah, I just read this review... WTF? No temp measurements posted, no dB levels posted... I mean really. It says right in the article that this should be called the "nearly no noise" solution. So if it is "nearly" silent, then whats teh dB on it? Nearly silent to them might be totally silent to someone who has bad hearing already, like myself. :)

Also, dont I remember seeing a giant aluminum heatsink to slap on the side of your case you can buy to passivly cool your water setup? Woud this rout not also be "nearly no noise" and cost like 1/6th the price? Also, cant you pasivly cool your WC setup just by having a big enough reservoir? *shrug*

Now, "Totaly No Noise" would be very sweet, especially if you had a solidstate hard drive. Wow, can you imagine how long it would take to boot up windows? Can we say Seconds? I certinly get a little tired of waiting for my win2k setup booting up when it take over 3 minutes just to do anything with your computer after you turn it on. But I would love to turn on the computer and hear absolutly nothing but the "Windows Startup Sound".

Edit: I would like to also point out that I have never WC'ed so I have no idea how silent a pump is but I imagin its pretty quiet since people are always saying they went WC because they were tired of hearing all the case fans they used to have
 
Originally posted by Jason711
i believe a solid state HD comes as an option with the case..

however the clickity clack of high performance drives would get annoying.. aswell as the spinning of optical drives..

i dunno.. perhaps you could put some dynomat stuff in it..
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I can't remember the last time I actually heard my hard drives.
 
A guy here in Sweden had one in his shop. The only thing making noice is the harddrive.

Temps where standard I think.. .

If youre serious about quiet cases its a great solution. And by quiet cases I dont mean running your set of 5 Papst fans at 7 volts and padding the inside of the tower with soundsilencer pads.

If it cost 500 dollars I would have bought one. If I get a better job I woll own one later this year..
 
a solid state hard disk would definately NOT work in a studio situation... flash disks are horribly slow and the $/gb is painful...
 
Originally posted by FLECOM
a solid state hard disk would definately NOT work in a studio situation... flash disks are horribly slow and the $/gb is painful...
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I wonder if you had like say 6 of these in your computer how it would sound. These arent NV so you would probably have to have some kind of HDD anyway, but I wonder if you could rig them up with NV something like this so that you could have a totaly silent setup.

*shrug*
 
FYI, it's called the TNN case and it's official US launch is scheduled for August. The MSRP is between $1100 and $1200 USD.

It's not ment to be a overclocker. But the Audio buffs that do recording will love it :p
 
Originally posted by Jason711
things can generate a sound but still be inaudiable.
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Sounds like something Confucious would say... :D

Edit: Or at least a fortune cookie.
 
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