Dude, you're gettin' a Zalman!
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Hey my Zalman flower cooler arrived in the mail today, the CNPS6000-Cu model. It's extremely nice to install, unlike the Volcano 7 which was heart attack material. Firstly the base is smaller and secondly it comes with a well designed clip and installation tool. You can read all about it on Dan's.
Using the speed control for the fan you can make it completely silent but still cool adequately, which makes a nice change from the hairdryer, I mean Volcano 7, I used to have.
It's a bit of a squeeze in my case though. The high heatsink from my GF4 4200 means I can only put the fan braket in one spot, which means the fan is not quite centred over the CPU. It certainly doesn't have the room to swing around on the arm like the demo on the Zalman site.
Also the heatsink 'petals' (:P) lean right over the top of the first ram socket, I'm sure it'd run OK but having a hot bit close to the uncooled ram chips made me uncomfortable so I moved them.
But generally it's way cool! =:oP
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