welcome to my unboxing and first look at the zman cnps
9900 Max which is over 9,000 I just thought I'd mention that this is the red
LED version fits on pretty much every socket you could care about including
2011 fm1 and am3 plus which doesn't apparently include LG 1155 but we'll see
once we open it ah no there you go they were just messing with me 2011 1866 1156
1155 775 am3 plus am3 am2 plus am2 fm1
basically whatever CPU you have you can put one of these on it and it will be
good composite heat pipe salomon's composite heat pipe features a centered
metal type Wick resulting in outstanding capillary pumping performance and a high
thermal conductive design of axial grooves which increases the heat transfer rate by 50% compared to
ordinary heat pipes so this is theirs this is more traditional types and I'm
going to tell you what's cool about that because heat pipes would rely on gravity okay they
would if they weren't better designed than that so zelman is saying that their
better than gravity Reliance design is better than other people's better than
gravity Reliance design now if you don't know a little something about how heat
pipes work then I'm going to do a short little lesson here that might help you
the way heat pipes work is they have a liquid inside it can be water it can be
something else and the liquid boils vapor izes and carries with it liquid
and heat up to the extremities of the pipe where it then condenses and flows
back to the bottom where it'll get heated up again as a liquid again this
is an extremely efficient way of moving heat around however when you take it and
you install it in a case all of a sudden
you can't rely on you know just hotter things Rising helping and you can't rely
on gravity to carry the liquid back down to the CPU so that is why there's
textures or patterns on the inside edges of the heat pipe to carry the liquid
back to where it needs to be heated up again so it can carry heat away from
your CPU so zman's basically
saying their way of doing that is more efficient so their heat pipe will
perform better than others particularly in scenarios where it's not going to be
gravity assisted so if you have a desktop case where it's going to be sitting like this honestly probably
makes no difference whatsoever but since almost everyone's using a tower these
days it will probably be a factor for you I've always liked zman's mounting
mechanisms they tend to come with a lot of pieces but they tend to also be very
flexible and once you get them on they're very secure as well so let's
have a look at what we've got included here in terms of accessories uh fan
resistor for well the fan as well as a
four pin version so you got a three pin or four pin version depending on what
you want to use you got some of their included thermal goop uh ZM stg2
okay you've got haha you've got an included tool so you'll actually be able
to install something this will fit with
something I I've seen this before ah these ones there you go so you got like
a little like uh ball and socket thing going on here so you can actually screw
things in from a weird angle it's very useful okay you've got your back plate
zman case badge uh you've got a
non-conductive like you know uh shield for that got AMD mounting
Hardware right here you got your Intel mounting hardware right here there's
your 775 your 1156 your 1366 and then I don't actually see the
uh oh I guess one of these is probably something to do with it okay so it's a
little complicated comes with a lot of pieces like I said usually very secure
that's what I've come to expect from them and they've actually got everything
very very well laid out for you here Intel clip AMD clip and then uh all the
installation instructions will make it pretty straightforward this is not like
the what was it the antech cooler box which
took me about 45 minutes to get installed on the motherboard because it
like things inter like once you got it starting to be installed things started
to interfere with each other and you like couldn't install it it's pretty
tough so that's kind of a neat way to pack this to make sure that nothing gets
bent you know so the fins don't uh fins don't get damaged so the heat pipes
don't get bent so it's got a total of six heat pipes here guys so right there
you got four of them coming out one way leading to this guy two or two of them
here two of them on the inside track and then you've got two coming out the other
side that are leading to the other ring of aluminum fins so these are copper
heat pipes aluminum fins and the base is extremely shiny so there's the
obligatory finger shot there where you can see it's basically a mirror mirror
surface so how does this work what would make this cooler more efficient in a
smaller space than other ones I'll tell you guys right now what makes makes it
more efficient the fact that it has a central fan and it is taking advantage
of not only the air that it is pushing out the back of the fan but also the air
that it is bringing in from the front one of the things that's going to make it quieter than what you would typically
see as well is the fact that there's not a lot of shrouding you're not forcing a
lot of the air flow uh at or around or through things that are restrictive and
noisy so you generally get very quiet performance with zman coolers although
not necessarily like the most extreme because let's face it if you have a
cooler that's three times the size of this then it's no secret which one is
probably going to keep your CPU at lower temperatures uh what I really want to do
is I want to check this one out in their where is it z11 plus hf1 Edition which
has red LEDs and so what we'll be doing is once we're done with this guy we're
going to throw a motherboard and uh and a power supply in there and have a look
at what an all Zalman cooled and cased machine it's going to look like so thank
you for checking out this unboxing and first look and don't forget to subscribe C detectives for more unboxings reviews
and other computer videos and actually here just get some closeups of what it
all like looks like very shiny zman is
uh a master of sort of the detail of a
CPU Cooler making sure it looks really good looks sharp performs well one of my
first aftermarket CPU coolers I ever bought was a zelman cnps 7000 CU I got
the All Copper version cuz I wanted to be baller like
that yeah