Saturday, May 12th 2007
Zalman to launch two new VGA coolers
Above, you can see the Zalman ZM-90 HP. The cooler is made from aluminum, and should be capable of cooling today's mid-range graphic cards.The VF1000 is an active cooler manufactured from aluminum using four heat-pipes. Don't be deceived by its apparently small size: it will be capable of cooling GeForce 8800 GTX.
Source:
Hardware Secrets
27 Comments on Zalman to launch two new VGA coolers
But then again they're (Borat): "Very Nice!"
tho a Thermaltake AT1 would work a lot better in a way/////
How do they add colour to the heatsink without undermining its heat transfer ability?
For example, obviously if you spray paint a surface you then have a layer of paint between the surface and the outside air. So what method do they use to add the colours onto/into the metal?
That VF-1000 looks awesome, itd be cool if they had two fans instead of the one though. They could have decreased fan speed/noise and achieved the same amount of cooling perhaps.
it's called galvanization or something like that ;)
Im asking what exactly it is that they do to it...
It cant be galvanisation because thats when they plate metal with another non corrosive metal so that it doesnt rust. Like galvanised nails.
they use electrolysis or some shit to anodize it IIRC
Year 8 science is returning to me :laugh:
Regards,
Arto.
Should be interesting to see the performance of those two coolers. I can imagine we'll be seeing a review from Anandtech or some other good source quite soon.
To be honest, I'm very surprised that their "higher end" model does not give you the option to wrap the heatsync around to the back. One of Zalman's selling points was the benefit of "fanless" cooling when paired with a CNPS series CPU cooler.
The VF1000 CU is made of copper, no shit, but seriously, how would it cool the 8800 with aluminium?, VF1000 is made for high end GPUs.
..and I doubt the Zalman will outperform the HR-03 Plus. Thermalright has six heatpipes compared to Zalman's four. Zalman's fan doesn't look amazing (or replacable).
Hmm.. My breakdown based on assumptions.
Zalman Pros:
Most likely cheaper (but not by much, I'd assume)
Zalman sticker
Easy installation
Zalman Cons:
Four heatpipes compared to the HR's six
Irreplaceable fan