To my knowlege the backplate only adds stability and gives something for the cpu cooler to screw into. Some Mobos (like gigabyte) have a plastic plate with clips rather than threaded screw holes and those usualy have to be replaced. If the plastc backplate has threaded screw holes (and your screws f...

A degree or two for twice the weight (300g vs 590g), no thanks. There are many better coolers in that high of weight class. Coolers should be compared by weight rather than name. Very different people would buy the copper version and the aluminum version. Regardless the katana is a very good cooler ...

I too did not want to give up my blue lights so I got a blue could cathode and some yate loon fans. The cathode is brighter but I can turn it off so its not a problem for me.

Nice job on the side panels and I love aluminum cases (I own a lian li)

The only limitation on 939 is the inabilaty to mount it sideways. I have this cooler and Its great, best light weight around

recently I RMA'd my 6600gt and put the stcok cooler back on before returning it and they couldent tell the diference so dont worry, just dont lose any parts.

There is way too much work on the inside of that case to not show it off
Love you rig

Well than I will express my thanks to Zalman for making great noise oriented products and for bringing awareness to silent cause. even if zalman dosent have the best cooler on the market they are still a great company and I think everyone else here feels that way too. and if you think thats bashing ...

I have been looking for a solution for my nforce4 heat problems so I had the great Idea to mod a zalman single heat pipe graphics cooler. I started by using the spare heatsink blocks and drilling 2 holes straight through the shorter block, so that they would line up with those on the larger one and ...

thx well thats still cooler than the gigabyte 6600gt and I dont really want to spent the extra $ for a vf700 if I dont have to.

My 6600gt kicked out and I dont want to wait for RMA so I want to get a graphics card to replace it, I was thinking a x800GTO 256 ($160 newegg)
I have a zalman dual hp passive cooler from my 6600gt but Im not sure if it can handle a x800 or If I should just buy a vf700 for it.

WTF

without fan

to take any pics Ill have to put it together becuse It all got taken apart after my 6600gt probs (symptoms of a overheat and burn out with no overheating or visual damage) I have one pick in action from my cell phone Ill post It tomorow if its good enough to see anything. Looks like Im in the market...

more bad news my 6600gt is dead! just static for picture now
on the upside my chipset cooler worked with zip ties but I removed It and replaced the stock cooler to diagnose my system. Well it was an interesting experiment but I'm going to have to put on hold and pry to the MSI RMA gods

bad news the thermal adhesive cant hold my set up even with the extra support from the g-card. right now im trying a crazy solution involving zip ties and some spare zalman mounting elboes. I hope It works :? Ill post picks as soon as I get a stable solution. I have not tryed my 5200 with only one H...

Good news I spent today with the dremel and made a chipset cooler. Ill post pics soon but let me explain it first. So I did no bending at all, the hp is in the same orentation as the graphics card basicly and the Hs is supported by the 6600gt's cooler under it. My temps are now quite a bit lower a s...

helped my brother cut the grills out of his TT tsunami today with my new dremel it made a big diference but his case still needs work

IN WIN IW-Z720T is my case recomendation 37.50 at new egg techonweb has them for cheaper though.
Thread about my findings

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I think I can do this without any bending! but there are still two issues 1> can the 5200 be cooled with one HS and no HP (its only in a server so I think It can) 2> with my plan the HS for the chipset would be directly above the zalman cooler for my 6600gt (about a quarter inch between them) would ...

Wait so are zalman HP on the VGA coolers 5mm they look like it My plan to build it was to use all the spare parts that I have from other vga coolers and make a exchanger for the chipset http://img401.imageshack.us/img401/1051/zm80ddrawing019hs.th.gif see the things that hold the hp to the graphics c...

My main problem is that the chip set is directly above my 6600gt HS. My case is a lian li pc 65 w/ front and back 12v YL so the air flow is good. I managed to lower my temps a few degrees in my old Setup in this case using a cookie jar HDD mod with a fan in the middle of the case with some air being...

try using standard thermal compound (put your pc sideways) to test and if it works use the glue, but if you know it will work why not just use the glue in the 1st place?

so can someone confirm you can bend these fins without breaking them

my nforce4 (ECS Kn1) runs at 48c and 55c while gaming with the stock HS and no fan. I know these things run hot but 55c scares me and I want it to be cooler. I'm toying with the Idea of modding a zalman HP cooler or using a ZALMAN ZM17-CU and bending the fins up.

thx for that I hadent read the last post, so bending is out of the qustion any way I could make a good chipset cooler out of a zalman HP? Curently I'm using the stock HS from my ECS Kn1, which is quite large but has a radial fin pattern so is not as effective passive. I have tryed using a zalman NB ...

I also have a Kn1 and I removed the fan and the stock HS outpreforms the zalman but it gets quite hot. My sys still tuns stable under heavy gaming but I have good ventalation and I dont have 12 HDD's. Curently Im planning on modding a graphics card cooler to fit on my NB. Good luck on silencing that...

So my nforce 4 chipset has been way too hot with out a fan but for Christmas I got a dremel so I got this Idea I have a Zalman ZM80C-HP (single heat pipe) cooler on an old geforce 5200 my Idea is to take one HS (it has a top and bottom one and I would remove the one opposite the chip) and the pipe a...

has anyone here acctualy done a project like the one pictured above using a zalman cooler? I am also interested in doing something like this but I don't want to break anything

For the gamers Lian Li is hard to beat, I love mine admittedly though it is not as quiet as other cases

Black Aluminum = one sexy case

post your findings if it works, im also interested in trying something like this my ECS Kn1 gets too hot with just the zalman NB 45

thx for the advice i think i will put the intake at the bottom to insure there is no backflow

I'm planning on conducting an experiment on applications of forced convection with a chimney using a light bulb for heat source. I plan on constructing a test box with a slanted top leading to varying size chimney; there would be only one intake with the light bulb centered. I know many of you have ...