World exclusive: Zalman TNN500A noiseless cooling case

[TerraMex]

Of course you can , just use your imagination ...

[fildaben]

my 2cents

http://voodoopc.com/systems/f50.aspx

if your so incline, i would give these guys a call and see if you can review their unit yourselves. the only thing offered for the case is with the amd64 3200+, with a slew of other goodies. i had to post this, since i read alot of bashing going on and alot of "elitest" attitude as well. a good review of this should atleast temper some attitude and clear some people's doubts.

[BillA]

might be nice to know about it, but there is virtually NOTHING on the site
all this for a mere $3500

pathetic marketing

[Starman97]

Well.. If I were to make and sell a system like that, I'd probably charge close to US$3500 for it too..

Think how much time and machining $$ you'd have have to spend to make a small run PC case with heatpipe coolers.

Of course the first 10 might be $3500, the next 100.. $1000, after that the volumes would start getting reasonable enough to get the case price under $500. But not with a Mobo and chip and vidcard.

[jaydee]

Originally posted by Starman97
Well.. If I were to make and sell a system like that, I'd probably charge close to US$3500 for it too..

Think how much time and machining $$ you'd have have to spend to make a small run PC case with heatpipe coolers.

Of course the first 10 might be $3500, the next 100.. $1000, after that the volumes would start getting reasonable enough to get the case price under $500. But not with a Mobo and chip and vidcard.

He isn't knocking the price, he is knocking the advertising for something so expensive. At least that's how I took it. If I were looking at a system for $3,500 they better be able to tell me how well it works out with empirical scientific data to back them selfs up. Not to mention the damn case better be able to produce gold out of air. Silence isn't worth that much.

[Starman97]

True, the site is very lite on real hard info about what makes the damn thing worth $3500, bus then again, take a look at BoXX's site..
http://www.boxxtech.com/asp/cf_step2...InstanceID=292
That's a $3000 gaming box.. and you can bet it's not anywhere near silent. It's not even watercooled!

I folllow the Mac world as well as the x86 world, there's a lot of people who are just as fanatical about silence as watercooling.
Do a google search on 'silent pc'
then on watercooler pC or watercooled.
There's interest.

I've set up my work office as quiet as possible, got low speed fans in my PC and I use several 80mm fans to keep the air moving with 7V operation. Replaced the noisy 40mm CPU fan with a bigger 60mm fan. And then put the machine under my desk, with the back exhausts facing the corner of the cube walls that are fabric over foam. It makes a difference.

[GTA]

I've got a fanless Athlon system, its not exactly cold, or overclocked, but its fairly simple. I'm not sure why Zalman don't simply include a small waterpump and massive rads on the side panels.

Components in my case are : CPU block, GPU block, GFX RAM block, NB block, 2xHDD blocks, SB block, PSU block

System is a 1600XP at stock speed and volts, and a GF4 Ti4200, also at stock.

Eheim 1048, 2 large heatercores attached to the sides of a 4U server case.

Works fine, I had to use very thick hose, because the water was getting up to about 40 degrees, causing the hoses to flex. CPU runs at 58-60 degrees under load. I made all my waterblocks myself, all to a very open design, to make sure that flowrate was kept fairly high through the large number of blocks.

Its perfectly stable, I use it as my server, main PC now is a Toshiba laptop.

I don't know why someone hasn't just done this large rads on the side of the case thing with water, rather than heatpipes, which seem quite fiddly. A decent water pump won't make any noise at all, if sufficiently isolated using foam padding or rubber feet.

And for some reason the nordic hardware site is down? I've seen the case before, but I'd like to read the preview, if only to get more information on the placement of the heatpipes.

[rmonster]

Not a very conclusive article, but thought it might be a link for those interested: http://www.tomshardware.com/howto/20040115/index.html

[satanicoo]

He reached the same conclusion: Too expensive for an almoust silent case, and no room for overclock.