Zalman CNPS9900 MAX Red LED CPU Cooler Unboxing & First Look Linus Tech Tips
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2013-05-07
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1,295 words · ~6 min read
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welcome to my unboxing and first look at the zman cnps
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9900 Max which is over 9,000 I just thought I'd mention that this is the red
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LED version fits on pretty much every socket you could care about including
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2011 fm1 and am3 plus which doesn't apparently include LG 1155 but we'll see
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once we open it ah no there you go they were just messing with me 2011 1866 1156
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1155 775 am3 plus am3 am2 plus am2 fm1
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basically whatever CPU you have you can put one of these on it and it will be
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good composite heat pipe salomon's composite heat pipe features a centered
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metal type Wick resulting in outstanding capillary pumping performance and a high
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thermal conductive design of axial grooves which increases the heat transfer rate by 50% compared to
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ordinary heat pipes so this is theirs this is more traditional types and I'm
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going to tell you what's cool about that because heat pipes would rely on gravity okay they
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would if they weren't better designed than that so zelman is saying that their
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better than gravity Reliance design is better than other people's better than
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gravity Reliance design now if you don't know a little something about how heat
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pipes work then I'm going to do a short little lesson here that might help you
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the way heat pipes work is they have a liquid inside it can be water it can be
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something else and the liquid boils vapor izes and carries with it liquid
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and heat up to the extremities of the pipe where it then condenses and flows
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back to the bottom where it'll get heated up again as a liquid again this
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is an extremely efficient way of moving heat around however when you take it and
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you install it in a case all of a sudden
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you can't rely on you know just hotter things Rising helping and you can't rely
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on gravity to carry the liquid back down to the CPU so that is why there's
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textures or patterns on the inside edges of the heat pipe to carry the liquid
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back to where it needs to be heated up again so it can carry heat away from
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your CPU so zman's basically
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saying their way of doing that is more efficient so their heat pipe will
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perform better than others particularly in scenarios where it's not going to be
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gravity assisted so if you have a desktop case where it's going to be sitting like this honestly probably
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makes no difference whatsoever but since almost everyone's using a tower these
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days it will probably be a factor for you I've always liked zman's mounting
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mechanisms they tend to come with a lot of pieces but they tend to also be very
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flexible and once you get them on they're very secure as well so let's
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have a look at what we've got included here in terms of accessories uh fan
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resistor for well the fan as well as a
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four pin version so you got a three pin or four pin version depending on what
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you want to use you got some of their included thermal goop uh ZM stg2
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okay you've got haha you've got an included tool so you'll actually be able
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to install something this will fit with
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something I I've seen this before ah these ones there you go so you got like
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a little like uh ball and socket thing going on here so you can actually screw
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things in from a weird angle it's very useful okay you've got your back plate
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zman case badge uh you've got a
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non-conductive like you know uh shield for that got AMD mounting
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Hardware right here you got your Intel mounting hardware right here there's
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your 775 your 1156 your 1366 and then I don't actually see the
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uh oh I guess one of these is probably something to do with it okay so it's a
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little complicated comes with a lot of pieces like I said usually very secure
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that's what I've come to expect from them and they've actually got everything
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very very well laid out for you here Intel clip AMD clip and then uh all the
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installation instructions will make it pretty straightforward this is not like
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the what was it the antech cooler box which
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took me about 45 minutes to get installed on the motherboard because it
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like things inter like once you got it starting to be installed things started
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to interfere with each other and you like couldn't install it it's pretty
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tough so that's kind of a neat way to pack this to make sure that nothing gets
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bent you know so the fins don't uh fins don't get damaged so the heat pipes
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don't get bent so it's got a total of six heat pipes here guys so right there
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you got four of them coming out one way leading to this guy two or two of them
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here two of them on the inside track and then you've got two coming out the other
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side that are leading to the other ring of aluminum fins so these are copper
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heat pipes aluminum fins and the base is extremely shiny so there's the
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obligatory finger shot there where you can see it's basically a mirror mirror
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surface so how does this work what would make this cooler more efficient in a
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smaller space than other ones I'll tell you guys right now what makes makes it
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more efficient the fact that it has a central fan and it is taking advantage
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of not only the air that it is pushing out the back of the fan but also the air
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that it is bringing in from the front one of the things that's going to make it quieter than what you would typically
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see as well is the fact that there's not a lot of shrouding you're not forcing a
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lot of the air flow uh at or around or through things that are restrictive and
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noisy so you generally get very quiet performance with zman coolers although
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not necessarily like the most extreme because let's face it if you have a
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cooler that's three times the size of this then it's no secret which one is
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probably going to keep your CPU at lower temperatures uh what I really want to do
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is I want to check this one out in their where is it z11 plus hf1 Edition which
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has red LEDs and so what we'll be doing is once we're done with this guy we're
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going to throw a motherboard and uh and a power supply in there and have a look
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at what an all Zalman cooled and cased machine it's going to look like so thank
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you for checking out this unboxing and first look and don't forget to subscribe C detectives for more unboxings reviews
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and other computer videos and actually here just get some closeups of what it
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all like looks like very shiny zman is
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uh a master of sort of the detail of a
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CPU Cooler making sure it looks really good looks sharp performs well one of my
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first aftermarket CPU coolers I ever bought was a zelman cnps 7000 CU I got
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the All Copper version cuz I wanted to be baller like
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that yeah