Zalman water cooling

falke · Post by **falke** » Tue May 06, 2003 7:14 am

Going through some Japanese computer sites this morning and came across this:

http://akiba.ascii24.com/akiba/news/200 ... 2-000.html
(Scroll down, near the bottom)

Post by **Rusty075** » Tue May 06, 2003 8:09 am

I was about to bemoan the fact that all the good stuff comes out in Korea first, but then I saw this Zalman ZM-WB1 CPU Waterblock #301 $49.95, but only for P4's Athlon64's

Athlon Powers · Post by **Athlon Powers** » Tue May 06, 2003 8:10 am

It would help if we could read Japanese.

Did you find an online translating tool for this page?

herosformula · Post by **herosformula** » Tue May 06, 2003 8:11 am

Excellent connectors, terrible base finish. Maybe its just due to year-long corrosion in the bag of a sales rep. I sure hope that is a shipping weight - 2lbs!

Post by **Rusty075** » Tue May 06, 2003 8:11 am

Holy synchronized posts Batman!

Ask and ye shall recieve AtomicDude. My psychic abilities sometimes even startle myself.

Post by **Rusty075** » Tue May 06, 2003 8:14 am

That base on the Korean site looks like a fresh from the casting finish, before polishing and lapping. I can't imagine Zalman would sell something to a consumer looking like that, given their quality record for air-cooled heatsinks.

pingu666 · Post by **pingu666** » Tue May 06, 2003 10:36 am

looks like rusty iron to me :\

jinu117 · Post by **jinu117** » Tue May 06, 2003 9:42 pm

Oh..... no... what is Zalman doing -_-?!
I've yet to see one of those coolers doing EFFECTIVE cooling. It just doesn't have effective area for heat dissipation nor enough airflow to cool it (and quiet at same time).
I guess there are some markets for people wanting a bit quieter solution than SLK-900 or CNPS-7000 Cu with high wattage CPU. But if you are going H2O... man... that is half of solution. (I would recommend exos over those any time... and custom setup instead of EXOS anytime)