best silent cooling solution EVER

[aws983s]

I don't know who else has heard of this, but ZALMAN is coming out with a monster. I love Zalman, they have always been very innovative, and after seeing this I consider this to be their crowning achievement. It's called the TNN500A. Have a look. The only moving part in a system built in this thing would be the harddrive, which itself gets noise reduced. According to the PDF, the CPU cooler which uses NO FAN has 150W/second of cooling capacity!!! That's not the half of it. Apparently Sharkacorp plans on selling it, but I'll bet it's gonna be VERY expensive. Here's the link:

http://www.sharkacorp.com/pdf/TNN500A_Catalog.pdf

 

[Peter D]

dude, that is SOOO cool! !

 

[joshg]

I haven't looked at the link to your PDF file, but I'm assuming it's the same as this...

http://store.yahoo.com/directron/fanless.html

Everything will be cooled by heatpipes. Yes, even the CPU will be passively cooled. The whole body of the case is actually a giant heatsink in itself, as well.

There've already been a couple of posts about it over at the AVSForum HTPC boards.

I'm curious as to how well it will actually work.

 

[GAZZA]

Yeah I posted this yesterday and that was a repost at that !

 

[aws983s]

I figured I definately wasn't the first to post this. I really don't care about being first (remember the kids that HAD to be "line-leader" in gradeschool?) so to speak. I've noticed several posts in other forums. But I had to share. I wonder how specific CPU orientation is on this thing. It doesn't look like there's much room for capacitors positioned north of the CPU socket (Abit IC7-MAX3 especially).

 

[Icewind]

Think i'll pass on that thing.

 

[soja]

:Q Can't believe it until there's more info to back it up. ATM I wouldn't trust any passive cooling to tame my toasty chip

 

[Drakkon]

I'd hate to sit next to that case...that thing gots to get hot...

 

[GAZZA]

They say it should be able to handle any cpu of today,

The chassis will feature six 6mm (diameter) CPU heatpipes capable of dealing with 150W/s heat transfer rate. Today's high end CPU's heat transfer is lower than 85W

Here is the reference to that quote Here

I just wonder how flexible the cpu cooler will be in relation to different motherboards out there, Amd or Intel.

 

[0roo0roo]

thats drool inducing

 

[Holmecollie]

Originally posted by: Drakkon
I'd hate to sit next to that case...that thing gots to get hot...

Well actually just because you have a passive heatsink doesn't mean it gets hotter in the room. The heat a computer dissapates doesn't increase because of it beeing passively cooled. YES, the metall itself gets hotter but in an actviely cooled solution you heat up the air that is blasted at the HS.

The computer produces a certain amount of heat, if certain components don't get properly cooled they heat up - that doesn't mean they produce more heat only that the heat stays where it is produced.

 

[0roo0roo]

yup, your pc creates a set amount of heat thats transfered to the air no matter what. doesn't make a difference if its passive.

 

[Skoodog]

Hmm...just brainstorming...

what if you built a wooden frame around the box then dismantled several room fans and built some "exo-case" intake and exhaust fans to cool this "case heatsink?"

Also what are the o/cing possibilities on a rig like this?

 

[EeyoreX]

Think i'll pass on that thing.

Me too. It's pretty ugly, if you asked me. Heavy duty though. I mean, I need casters that support up to one ton for my PC...

\Dan

 

[Richdog]

That thing looks shilt, is guaranteed to be hideously overpriced, and looks like an absolute unnecessary hassle. You can get a near silent system far easier than that, i'd say thats the most useless product i've seen this year. LOL apart from that it seems just fine... :beer:

 

[soja]

I was thinking, wouldn't it be better to have the fins on the case run horizontally?

 

[0roo0roo]

Originally posted by: Richdog
That thing looks shilt, is guaranteed to be hideously overpriced, and looks like an absolute unnecessary hassle. You can get a near silent system far easier than that, i'd say thats the most useless product i've seen this year. LOL apart from that it seems just fine... :beer:

bullsh*t. how would you create a silent case easier then that? even water cooling has the sound of the pump and fans to cool the radiator. this case seems to have only the harddrive as a noise maker, i'd pay over 200 dollars for that.

 

[User1001]

why the heck does it need casters?

 

[RalfHutter]

I heard this was going to cost $1000. Is that right?


EDIT - Just saw $1260 mentioned here.

Hahhahahahahahahahahahahaha!

 

[huesmann]

Originally posted by: Skoodog
Hmm...just brainstorming...

what if you built a wooden frame around the box then dismantled several room fans and built some "exo-case" intake and exhaust fans to cool this "case heatsink?"

Doesn't adding fans kinda defeat the purpose of having a SILENT 'puter?

 

[huesmann]

Originally posted by: User1001
why the heck does it need casters?

Prolly cause it's heavy as fcuk?

 

[huesmann]

Originally posted by: soja
I was thinking, wouldn't it be better to have the fins on the case run horizontally?

Er, no. Heat (hot air) rises. If the fins were horizontal heat would be trapped between them. If they're vertical, the air can just go straight up.

 

[Intelman07]

Originally posted by: huesmann

Originally posted by: User1001
why the heck does it need casters?

Prolly cause it's heavy as fcuk?

Probally

 

[0roo0roo]

or maybe keeping a giant heatsink off the carpet/floor is a good thing really tall feet would look stupid. so casters it is i bet.

 

[aws983s]

So Zalman claims that the passive CPU heatpipe cooler in this "beast" can cool 150W/second. Obviously it can't cool to anything lower than ambient room temperatures, but does anybody know offhand the cooling capabilities of other CPU coolers (esp. low noise solutions)? Also, wouldn't it be nice to have an ACTIVE cooling system based on this same heatpipe solution (but better than those little SFF solutions) Also, (also #2) wouldn't it be nice to have some sort of way to implement this CPU cooler on any normal case vis-a-vis installing the heatpipes to run to a big heatsink outside of a modded case? Zalman could supply the drill bits.