Zalman fanless GPU cooler at SVC for 29.99

[HeroOfPellinor]

Zalman ZM80A-HP

This is the latest Zalman fanless GPU cooler for those looking for a quiet or silent computer.

This is the cheapest price around and shipping is reasonable. Mine, along with some fans and heatsinks, shipped the same day I placed the order. SVC has good prices and quick shipping, but the service can be unprofessional and frustrating.

Here's a review
hardcoreware.net

 

[RIGorous1]

holy shnike's this is fat... probably takes up another PCI slot space.... gold plated though... nice.

 

[iwearnosox]

Why zalman has to dip these things in a gold finish is beyond me. It's a great concept but I can't bear to buy it. It's like those guys at bars that wear a gold chain outside of their shirts.

Blech.

 

[iwearnosox]

(RIGorous1 must have a gold chain...)

 

[Squalish2357]

It IS a great heatsink though. One person reported running a unit fine on his ti4600, at good temps and totally stable, without the heatpipe or the rear sink(A capacitor on his mobo prevented him from fitting in the heatpipe.).

 

[XxDaTxX]

Originally posted by: Squalish2357
(A capacitor on his mobo prevented him from fitting in the heatpipe.).

15 seconds with the rotary tool from the HD deal will take care of that one ..... still kinda fugly though .... cant thing of a tool to fix that one eh?

 

[bockchow]

i was thinking of getting one of these for my AIW and makeing a completely fanles home theater box. could be cool.

 

[Jakev3]

more quiet ..woohoo!

 

[DongTran]

same price at SD, CA fry's if you locals dont' want to pay shipping...

 

[tiejiba]

I am in

 

[UltraWide]

no fans : quiet
quiet : good
no fans : good

LOL!

 

[Conan]

Impulse buy... (thanks Hot Deals)

Ok, I ordered the GPU cooler AND CPU cooler for the AMD Athlon. Anyone using one or both of these coolers?

 

[Cheval]

I am thinking about getting one of these for my AIW 9700. I'm not sure if it will fit though? I emailed Zalman about it and am waiting their reply. Looking at the pictures of the AIW 9700 it looks like it will fit but until I get the card (just ordered it two days ago) I don't know for sure. So in the meantime I decided to email Zalman about it and see what they say...

 

[Cheval]

oh and GamePC has a review of this cooler

Zalman ZM80-HP review at GamePC.com

Edit to add: the ZM-80HP reviewed at GamePC appears to be a smaller version. It weighs 385 grams and has 1000cm2 dissip area vs 400 grams and 1300 cm2 for the ZM80A-HP

 

[Squalish2357]

Originally posted by: XxDaTxX

Originally posted by: Squalish2357
(A capacitor on his mobo prevented him from fitting in the heatpipe.).

15 seconds with the rotary tool from the HD deal will take care of that one ..... still kinda fugly though .... cant thing of a tool to fix that one eh?

The cap was blocking the heatpipe itself, not the reverse sink.

 

[Cheval]

In case anyone is wondering, I got a reply from Zalman on whether or not they work on the AIW 9700 and they replied back that the ZM80A-HP works on it so I ordered it.

 

[crypticlogin]

Anybody else notice that the second picture labeled "ZM80A-HP (Top)" on Zalman's site (and thus mirrored on SVC's page) is flipped backwards?

Ah well, it looks like some pretty heavy duty cooling too. Too bad it won't work for me.

 

[etee]

Anyone use this with the BFG ti4200 128 meg card?

I was wondering what is keeping the HSF on top of the GPU on these cards. I've heard thermal epoxy is not practical to take off, and if the BFG card uses that, this cooler would be useless to me.

 

[deviantchristoff]

"Why zalman has to dip these things in a gold finish is beyond me."

This one's easy. As far as cooling goes Aluminum = Good Copper = Better GOLD = Even better. I believe platinum would be next on the list, but that ain't gonna happen anytime soon. Who would've ever guessed cooling is all about the BLING-BLING!

 

[Squalish2357]

Originally posted by: deviantchristoff
"Why zalman has to dip these things in a gold finish is beyond me."

This one's easy. As far as cooling goes Aluminum = Good Copper = Better GOLD = Even better. I believe platinum would be next on the list, but that ain't gonna happen anytime soon. Who would've ever guessed cooling is all about the BLING-BLING!

Platinum only costs maybe twice what gold does. As to its thermal properties: It's almost purely cosmetic. A nice property of gold is that it is one of the most malleable metals known to man. If you try hard enough, you can stretch a pound or two into a many-mile long thread. This is why "Gold Leaf" and "Gold plating" is so cheap, compared to the actual metal(which trades around $350 an ounce). The amount of metal in the sink is trivial. On conductivity: I believe that while gold is a superconductor of electricity, it isn't much better than copper on heat conductivity.

Thermal conductivity, according to webelements.com, in [/W m-1 K-1]:
430 silver
400 copper
320 gold
235 aluminum
72 platinum

Incase you doubt these figures, more from tweaktown:
Metal Thermal Conductivity (W/cm-K)

Diamond 6.299
Silver 4.173
Copper 3.837
Aluminium 2.165
Gold 2.913

 

[bearauto]

Originally posted by: Squalish2357

Originally posted by: deviantchristoff
"Why zalman has to dip these things in a gold finish is beyond me."

This one's easy. As far as cooling goes Aluminum = Good Copper = Better GOLD = Even better. I believe platinum would be next on the list, but that ain't gonna happen anytime soon. Who would've ever guessed cooling is all about the BLING-BLING!

Platinum only costs maybe twice what gold does. As to its thermal properties: It's almost purely cosmetic. A nice property of gold is that it is one of the most malleable metals known to man. If you try hard enough, you can stretch a pound or two into a many-mile long thread. This is why "Gold Leaf" and "Gold plating" is so cheap, compared to the actual metal(which trades around $350 an ounce). The amount of metal in the sink is trivial. On conductivity: I believe that while gold is a superconductor of electricity, it isn't much better than copper on heat conductivity.

Not to mention that this stuff isn't pure gold; it's got a bunch of other junk with a dash of gold for color...

 

[Squalish2357]

Originally posted by: bearauto

Originally posted by: Squalish2357

Originally posted by: deviantchristoff
"Why zalman has to dip these things in a gold finish is beyond me."

This one's easy. As far as cooling goes Aluminum = Good Copper = Better GOLD = Even better. I believe platinum would be next on the list, but that ain't gonna happen anytime soon. Who would've ever guessed cooling is all about the BLING-BLING!

Platinum only costs maybe twice what gold does. As to its thermal properties: It's almost purely cosmetic. A nice property of gold is that it is one of the most malleable metals known to man. If you try hard enough, you can stretch a pound or two into a many-mile long thread. This is why "Gold Leaf" and "Gold plating" is so cheap, compared to the actual metal(which trades around $350 an ounce). The amount of metal in the sink is trivial. On conductivity: I believe that while gold is a superconductor of electricity, it isn't much better than copper on heat conductivity.

Not to mention that this stuff isn't pure gold; it's got a bunch of other junk with a dash of gold for color...

Lol. Zalman did make a CPU heatsink that was totally gold plated, I thought this got the same treatment. Now I think it the VGAsink is just anodized aluminum or something.

 

[Salvador]

Once you put this on your card, it's on there for good, isn't it?

Just checking..

Sal

 

[Cheval]

I assume it can just be taken back off since it's held on with those screws? On the product page it has a flash animation of how you put it on. Looks pretty easy so should take it off just in reverse with no problems I'd imagine....

 

[Realguns]

Originally posted by: iwearnosox
Why zalman has to dip these things in a gold finish is beyond me. It's a great concept but I can't bear to buy it. It's like those guys at bars that wear a gold chain outside of their shirts.

Blech.

Hmmm- Puts on thinking cap- Aluminum touches copper result, electrolic reaction- Solution, shut up and let Zalman, gold plate the Heatpipe. The rest is anodized aluminum.

The copper heat pipe will leak if left touching aluminium long enough.

Yup it beyond you