Zalman Showcase Massive P4 Heatsink 396
Kez writes "I couldn't express the size of this heatsink in the space provided for the subject of this post. It's the size of a small country and when the fan is running, turbulence from it means a no-fly zone needs to enforced above it. At Hexus.net we've got a picture of this behemoth."
Wow, (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Wow, (Score:5, Informative)
Re:Wow, (Score:5, Informative)
A fan that size isn't measured in watts, it's measured in horsepower. An axial (propeller) fan capable of moving that much air might be about six feet in diameter and be driven by a 10 hp motor.
Maybe there's a typo in there - 25 cubic meters per minute (I know, not a proper SI unit) would be about 900 cfm, much more believable for a 6" fan, but still howling.
Re:Wow, (Score:3, Informative)
10 hp=7457 watts
Re:But but... (Score:3, Funny)
1400 watts? I stopped to ask myself if they were heating the CPU, or cooling it.
SI measurements on this monument to excess (Score:5, Funny)
However you measure it though a "15 centimetre" fan that draws 1500 watts of power to cool a CPU is just stupid. Not sure if it is a slow news week for nerds but it seems the stories are getting silly (still a good laugh though). This CPU cooler would be good for the guy who buys that dumb "type R" PSU that was featured earlier. It seems the PC-modder crowd is seeing more and more "rice boxes" out there.
I can picture it now..."cool" nerd going a LAN party, driving a brightly painted Civic with that screaming 115HP motor, windows tinted almost opaque with 18" wheels on a goofy camber due to the chopped springs/hack lowering job and glowing neon and red "R" stickers all over the place.
In the passenger seat sits his 'leet gamer PC (the trunk is full of amps and speakers). It is an amazing construction of aluminum, plexiglass, neon and silver and gold Tremclad housing a type R power supply (as advertised on
Just a word of advice...if you "pimp your ride", then "pimp your PC" to match your ride, it is time to seek therapy.
For all of you who can't see it (Score:3, Funny)
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PICTURE (Score:5, Informative)
Mirror of pic (Score:5, Informative)
Mirror here [bighosting.net]
Re:Mirror of pic (Score:2)
Re:Wow, (Score:2)
Re:Wow, (Score:2)
Re:Wow, (Score:5, Informative)
From this picture [vr-zone.com] it looks like the picture that everyone is talking about is the marketing display unit on the left. This looks like a blown up version of the real unit (shown on the right side of the picture) used for the purposes of trade shows (and slash dot advertising) only!
The quoted article is obviously a joke about the marketing version and not refering to the real heatsink unit shown on the right of the linked picture. Even though the real unit is not as large as a small dog and does not use 1.4 kW of power it is still an impressive unit.
Yep, most of the above is my take on the article and may not be 100% correct but it does make more sense then the OP and some of the comments below.
M.
Re:NOT FUNNY: Chinese Military Computers (Score:3, Insightful)
What happened to -37, So Absurdly Offtopic It's Not Even Funny?
Standard Units Please (Score:5, Funny)
The world must know.
Re:Standard Units Please (Score:3, Funny)
Wow, you're clearly not a true scientist. Had you been, I think you'd be much more interested in the cooling measurement in tauntauns per time-it-takes-to-reach-the-first-marker, commonly represented as the variable {Aack!}. :-)
I'll expect an apology in less than three parsecs.
Re:Standard Units Please (Score:3, Funny)
Is that the sound the heatsink makes, or the sound of the joke flying overhead?
Re:Standard Units Please (Score:2)
Re:Standard Units Please (Score:4, Funny)
"That's no space station... it's a heatsink!"
And to answer the grandparent post, it'll cool roughly 4.5 Han Solo's per minute, which is about
Re:Standard Units Please (Score:2)
(Is the metric standard of somewhat-long measure a football pitch, or is that sort of garbage reserved for us Merkuns?)
Re:Standard Units Please (Score:2)
Wow (Score:5, Funny)
Comment removed (Score:4, Informative)
Re:Wow (Score:3, Insightful)
HOLY CRAP THAT'S HUGE!
Re:Wow (Score:2)
Bigger isn't always better.
Re:Wow (Score:4, Funny)
The best part is the label in tiny print on the thing, which looks like a small desk fan:
"Zalman Quiet CPU Cooler"
Oh yeah! I bet that thing is just whisper-quiet when it revs up to full speed, causing your PC to launch out the window and slip the surly bonds of earth.
slashdotted already... (Score:5, Funny)
The shit just hit the fan.
Sorry for the language, I just could not resist.
Re:slashdotted already... (Score:2, Funny)
No worries, allow me:-
La merde a juste frappé le ventilateur.
We Even Beat MirrorDot to the Punch (Score:2)
Re:slashdotted already... (Score:2)
obviously it's not running the webserver at hexus (Score:2)
uhmm, not anymore you don't (Score:3, Funny)
looks like (Score:2)
Big Heatsink (Score:2)
Hexus.net (Score:2)
Wow (Score:5, Funny)
We are a collectively sad bunch of nerds.
Re:Wow (Score:4, Funny)
That old stereotype? (Score:5, Funny)
Speed is no longer the biggest selling point (Score:5, Insightful)
For me speed is no longer the biggest selling point for a CPU.
It is on second place after power consumption.
Re:Speed is no longer the biggest selling point (Score:2)
Re:Speed is no longer the biggest selling point (Score:3, Funny)
You obviously don't run gentoo :)
Re:Speed is no longer the biggest selling point (Score:2)
No Shit!!
When you consider that the heatsink will consume more power then the computer it's cooling, you've kind of blundered into the Tacoma Narrows Bridge of thermal design. I mean seriously, what is the point in having anything like this unless you are compensating for something else?
My mail server consumes 27 watts. So does my web server. Will it withstand SlashDot? I don't know, I've never posted the URL.
But I don't need it to survive SlashDot. I just need it for what I use it for.
How hot does it run? (Score:2)
Advantage? (Score:2)
Is there normally a really worthwhile benefit over an upgraded processor (with the savings from using a standard heatsink)? There's the noise too.
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Re:Advantage? (Score:2)
Connected to a 12cm fan rotating at ~1200 rpm it's almost silent and even in case the fan fails the cpu will not overheat (I tried it once).
Three Words: (Score:5, Funny)
mmmm...
someone needs a new fan (Score:3, Funny)
MIRROR (Score:5, Informative)
Now let's start the "How slashdot should mirror before posting" thread.
No mirror... (Score:3, Funny)
maybe we need a mirror for mirrordot?
Re:MIRROR (Score:2)
Alternative link (i think) (Score:2)
http://www.frostytech.com.nyud.net:8090/articlevi
Re:Alternative link (i think) (Score:2)
http://www.zalman.co.kr/eng/product/view.asp?idx=
If that's a 120mm fan, it's pretty damned large.
Re:Alternative link (i think) (Score:2)
too tiny (Score:2)
This is the heat sink you are looking for [bighosting.net]
Since I don't really require the article... (Score:2)
1. They never give the coefficient of heat transfer. Without that vital bit of information, there's no reason to select it over a heatsink that you already have that's doing the job.
2. Note the lack of fans. Moving air is about 5x more efficient at transferring heat than still air. They could reduce the size of the sink just by adding some fans.
3. After calculating the size you require and doubling it, there's no point in adding more sinking. You
Re:Since I don't really require the article... (Score:2)
It'll never work because the fan motor requires 1.4kW of power. That's plenty of reason.
Re:Since I don't really require the article... (Score:2)
All I had to go with was a blank page and the twenty or so posts that said, "ITS NTO N0 TH3I1R SERVRE! M I SO FNUUY!"
If I'd known about the 1400W requirement I'd point out that it generates five times more heat that the rest of your computer.
Re:Since I don't really require the article... (Score:2)
It looks to be almost all copper, with 3 of those large phase changing heat tubes.
Re:Since I don't really require the article... (Score:2)
iceberg (Score:2)
This has to be a joke (Score:4, Informative)
Coral link to article [nyud.net]
Coral link direct to picture of fan [nyud.net]
Re:This has to be a joke (Score:2, Funny)
Re:This has to be a joke (Score:2)
It's true! I just need to find the $#%$#! link agian..
Re:This has to be a joke (Score:5, Insightful)
Of course, you'll need a serious case upgrade too, and we would recommend the CoolerMaster 821 Garage, which comes with a tasteful variety of electronic doors and leaves enough room for even the largest GFX cards in SLI and a Nissan Micra too.
Seriously people, it's a JOKE. Stop trying to explain why it'll never work because it uses 1.4KW.
Re:This has to be a joke (Score:2)
Imagine that fan pointing out of THIS ... (Score:2)
Bigger than a Mac heatsink? (Score:2)
Personally I'd like one of those giant heatsinks in my PC if it meant less fans or even really slow (hence quiet) fans.
What would be ideal is a heat pipe system that attaches to the side panel of the system case which would double as a heatsink. That would rock.
Size Doesn't Matter (Score:5, Insightful)
I'm thinking a metalic design like currogated cardboard with air blown through the "tubes" between the layers should work very well. This would fit in well with a pass through fan design pushing air from the front of the case to the back right through the tubes. Just align the heatsink properly and go. No more need for seperate, big CPU fans mounted right onto the heatsink.
-Rusty
Re:Size Doesn't Matter (Score:2)
Re:Size Doesn't Matter (Score:3, Insightful)
Direct Links and text (Score:2, Informative)
The article text:
Working picture link (Score:5, Funny)
weight (Score:2)
Normal sized Zalman heatsinks come with a warning about exceeding the recommended mass that intel sanctions as appropriate to be placing on top of their sillicon, can't imagine what the warning would be like on this thing. Do not taunt "big boy flower heatsink"
e.
Just 4 words: (Score:2)
C'mon, sure this didn't start out on fark.com???
Mock-up (Score:2, Insightful)
A mock up for a computer show.
If you look in the background of the picture, it looks like there are Zalman posters hanging up, like you'd have at a booth. Made much smaller, they might have an interesting idea for an effective CPU cooler (as Zalman has come up with some pretty neat ideas over the years, I'd almost expect something like this for them). The text is just for fun.
I'd assume everyone on here would understand humor when they saw it....but....
A little math (Score:2)
Let's say the volume of the smallest cylinder that contain the fan would be 1 liter (using round numbers here). With five fan blades, that would mean that the fan could move 5 liters of air per revolution.
That would mean something like 5000 revolutions per second.
Ok, so the radius of the fan is something like 0.1 meter (round numbers remember), giving approximately a peripheral speed of 3000 meters per second.
That's around mach-10.
Somehow I doubt the "Quiet
When heatsinks get that big (Score:2)
Bigger Isn't Always Better (Score:2)
obligatory SW reference (Score:2)
e.
Gigantor! (Score:2)
Not only does your fan spin faster, so does your electric meter!
The Death Sink (Score:2)
Re:Why oh why, slashdotted before the first commen (Score:2)
Re:Why oh why, slashdotted before the first commen (Score:5, Interesting)
How to fix the slashdot effect [slashdot.org].
Any mod points would be hot.
Re:Why oh why, slashdotted before the first commen (Score:5, Insightful)
Actually, web sites that cannot stand Slashdotting are badly designed. Ace's Hardware survived a Slashdotting using a single ~500MHz UltraSPARC II server, running Java no less.
I think people just don't realize how powerful even an ancient CPU is at pushing data, when it isn't running GNOME. Think about it, whole companies ran data centers on systems less powerful than a $400 PC not twenty years ago.
Corrected URL (Score:2)
Re:Obligatory (Score:2)
So, I'll just stick with the useful stuff.
Although it doesn't look like it's gonna be a lot of help, here's the Coral Cache [nyud.net] link.
Supposedly, the Mirrordot version will appear here at some point in the future [mirrordot.org], though it goes nowhere at time of posting.
TFA (Score:3, Informative)
Pumping an impressive 25 cubic metres of air per second Zalman are confident that the 'Big Boy Turbo Mega Fan 2' will be able to keep any Intel CPU, up to and including the Pentium 4 670 3.8GHz, running cool in even the warmest conditions.
Developed with the help of the British Aerospace wind tunnel engineers, the BBTMF can pump enough air to pop you double glazing out, so
Re:TFA (Score:4, Informative)
Re:TFA (Score:2)
Re:You couldn't express the size? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:You couldn't express the size? (Score:2)
Re:You couldn't express the size? (Score:2)
Re:No comments and /.ed already? (Score:2)
Re:No comments and /.ed already? (Score:2, Insightful)
A better fix (Score:2, Redundant)
Fix for the slashdot effect [slashdot.org]
I think this would solve the issue outright.
Re:Could be... (Score:2)
the first word of the story title didn't give it away for you?
someone put the script test on all this guy's posts from now on.
Re:Come on, kids (Score:2)
Oh wait, it doesn't work for you, so it doesn't work for anyone. Forgot.
Coral cache. (Score:2)
On the whole, I've been unimpressed with Coral's performance. It has never, in my experience, been faster (and is often slower) to go to a site---Slashdotted or not---using Coral. And even after waiting for the page to load through Coral, going back to it ten minutes later makes no improvement.
Someone let me know when Coral starts actually being useful.
--grendel drago
Captchas? (Score:2)
Log in before you comment instead of using the comment form to log in. I stay logged on, and I have no damned idea what these captchas everyone's talking about are.
--grendel drago
Re:This is why next gen consoles use ibm (Score:3, Funny)
Ah!!!!!!!!!!!!!
That is what they are doing, it finally starts making sense now.
I can just picture it, 5 years from now..
Buy the new and improved Intel toaster with the new P8 CPU. The most powerfull CPU you'll find in a toaster for the fastest and best toasting..