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Official description: “The Zalman CNPS FX100-Cube is fanless and noiseless CPU cooler, which does not draw dust or generate vibration due to its passive operation.” Unofficial description: LOOK AT THIS FREAKING MONSTER HEATSINK!
Made of copper and aluminium this 1.94-pound (880 gram) cooling thingamajig works with 77W TDP (Thermal Design Power) processors, “including Intel’s i7-3770K.” I admire those who still build their own PCs. Respect. [Fanlesstech]
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But does it work?
I never thought i would say this in seriousness…
I wonder how well it blends.
I’m not sure it would fit.
Is that a win by default?
On the topic of quiet PC’s. That would be excellent for my office CPU, I work in a quiet design room and my current PC’s fans are a little irritating most of the time! They are whisper fans even still but…. I see a good market for this product providing it can work for 8 hours straight and the heat build up doesn’t get the best of it!
You could use a fan controller, it should also be a bit easier to fit.
Yeah, this thing won’t remove the need for all fans. You’d still need some airflow to draw out warm air and cool the northbridge, RAM, graphics card, etc. However, with a fan controller or a motherboard that supports it, those fans can be throttled back.
You make a fair point, the heat still needs to go somewhere and will need to be vented somehow. We looked at having water cooled in the office here a few years back but it was going to prove quite costly to revamp all the systems. I dare say more modern water coolers have come down in price though. The fans on my system go flat out when i’m doing my days rendering in the afternoons here lol.
I rarely see inside my pc so couldnt really care how it looks. Does it work is the imprtant thing.
I like the idea of not needing a fan the noise they generate is annoying.
No, the CR-100a is a freaking monster heatsink, the Silentmaxx Twinblock is a truly freaking monster heatsink…This is just passive.
We’ve got good tower coolers with loud fans and now we’re getting huge semi-decent passive heatsinks, now they just need to learn to put really, really quiet fans on big heatsinks that aren’t impractical and we’ll be perfect.
I thought – thats not all that big, until i noticed the die underneath… woah. Not sure it would fit in my case – and my case is pretty big!
Why do people care about how hardware looks all of a sudden? For me it’s about functionality. I mean you can buy a £2000 Apple Laptop but in the end it’s still only as good as a £500 Windows Laptop. Really all you’ve paid for is looks and Brand….
The same with people who hate Plastic phones…. so you’re going to pick looks over functionality? You can get that lackluster IOS based iPhone and then jump on the band wagon of claiming Android is the worst PoS in the world, then praise the features when it comes to IOS. Or you can just admit that Android is better than IOS now and buy a plastic phone.
Plastic is more durable than Metal and Glass people and having a Micro SD slot is better than not, I don’t care what people say about cloud storage.
This is a monster heatsink? No a Noctua NH-D14 is, 1.2kg of cooler, with a 120mm and a 140mm fan.
The Phanteks PH-TC14 has 2 140mm fans, and weighs 1.25kg..and it’s a whole 20mm bigger!!!