Zalman CNPS14X Dual Tower Heatsink Cooler Unboxing & First Look Linus Tech Tips
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2013-05-07
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1,215 words · ~6 min read
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welcome to my unboxing and first look at the cnps
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14x 140 mm fan ultra quiet cooler from
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zman at socket LGA 2011 ready and can
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use up to three fans two additional fans
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available for installation that doesn't even mean anything okay moving right
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along to the side powerful cooling performance 140 mm pwm fan with low
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noise u-shaped dual heat sink excellent compatibility high performance thermal
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grease is included and it can be installed in mid tower computer cases is
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what I'm sure they meant to say it's like middle computer cases like Middle Earth like if your computer cases like
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Hobbits and stuff powerful cooling performance okay this this looks like
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most of the same stuff we already saw so why don't we go ahead and open this up this might matter uh the weight is wow
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uh almost about 2 lb actually that's outstanding and long life bearing okay
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long life bearing isn't actual bearing type I wonder if they mean like d ball
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bearing or like uh Hydro bearing or some other kind of bearing so on one of my
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previous zelman cooler unboxings I had said that I liked their uh mounting
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mechanism I think they've changed their mounting mechanism since last time I
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used it because it was a little bit challenging to get all the pieces sort
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of aligned and assembled and then um and
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then going um in terms of packing materials we're using a soft foam down
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here in the bottom so there's not much risk of damage and then this cardboard
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at the top is going to be pretty much all you need to protect this guy I like
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this right here this piece it seems kind of like unnecessary until you think
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about it in terms of if you've ever had a tower cooler with two towers before
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and what happens when you accidentally like bend them which is i' I've had this
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happen so this is good I'm I'm a fan uh
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let's have a look at the overall design of the cooler so the obligatory finger shot is it shiny yes it's shiny uh not
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like the uh the 9900 Max that we looked at before but it is shiny and honestly
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it's not really necessary for it to be a mirror like finish in order to make good
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contact with the CPU in terms of heat pipes we've got six heat pipes these are
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smaller heat pipes but there's lots of them and the towers are nice and big so
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you've got a fairly dense actually you've got a fairly dense Arrangement
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here so you're going to need a fairly high performance fan in order to really
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generate the best performance out of this cooler however I do like the whole
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sandwich cooler design overall because it's it always felt stupid to me back in
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the day that we weren't making any use of the air that's coming into the intake
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and we're only making use of the air that the fan is exhausting because some
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people think that um and they're wrong
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um some people think that the air that gets exhausted from a cooler that's like
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let's let's say let's say this part didn't exist and it's just a fan blowing
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down onto heat sinks they think that the air coming out of here is already like
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the maximum temperature that could have been you know transmitted to that air it
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doesn't work that way I mean the air temperature might only raise a few de
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going from here with through the fan and through the other side so yes this side
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is going to be slightly less efficient than this side in terms of cooling but
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it's a lot better than nothing so you're definitely better off I mean uh
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swifttech did their um stack series of
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Radiators where they had you could have two radiators and then a single layer of fans in between as long as you've got a
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high pressure high performance fan that is a beastly way to achieve more cooling
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surface area without sacrificing um noise because you can use
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one fan to do the work of two as long as it's high static pressure so it's a 140
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mm fan you've got additional mounting hardware
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included right here for an additional
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two fans so this is actually has very very dense because it's using many
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thinner heat pipes and then a fairly dense Arrangement here but you've got
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more of these that you can actually Mount
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like I don't know it'll go on there somehow Slick's trying to figure it out
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too but I don't think he stands a better chance I mean if I can't do it he can't do it I'm just bugging
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you it goes on here somehow yeah I
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really don't think it goes there I don't think that's it I think it's this one I
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think it's this one and it probably like stretches over a fan somehow and uh you
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know it might actually be this
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way but everything would be hunky dory somehow and it would it would fit don't
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worry uh um mounting hardware thermal
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grease is included and zman case badge and nice
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rigid back plate so that's one thing it does have going for it and I think that
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pretty much covers it so thank you for checking out my unboxing and first look at cnps 14x from zelman and don't forget
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to subscribe to L Tech tips for more unboxings reviews and other computer
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videos and just in case you wanted something totally ridiculous with your
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cnps 14x you can actually set up up to
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an additional two fans with the included mounting brackets to go with the one in
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the middle which means you've got a push pull Push Pull configuration on this
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thing making it like about as big as a person's head see check this
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out more performance more silence just
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generally more of everything so yes
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thank you for checking out this unboxing and sort of ludicrous application of a
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huge cooler from zman actually this is slightly different
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than the 9900 in terms of mounting um this was a little bit disappointing to
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me so this is the same so you'll you'll go ahead and you'll put these in under
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these screws you just loosen them a little bit you throw this in here and then you tighten them back up and then
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um see no it doesn't go there it goes in between and then you go ahead and you
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put these bolts through here and then
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once this like if the motherboard's installed in your case then this will be
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really challenging because this will be here or like here and then you'll have
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like this wrench and you'll be trying to tighten it like
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this um