Massive Heat Sink

9 Responses to Massive Heat Sink

1. asok_green (UID# 746) 0  0

   September 25, 2007 at 4:07 pm

   At first I assumed this was huge because it was passive, but I’m pretty sure I see wires for a fan in there too. What on earth puts out that much heat? Are high-end graphics cards really getting that hot now?

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2. egnilk66 (UID# 573) 0  0

   

   September 25, 2007 at 4:18 pm

   Neither….it’s a pocket pussy for a super geek.

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3. hepathos (UID# 719) 0  0

   September 25, 2007 at 4:20 pm

   Shit, you can cold-out Megatron with that thing

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4. synfyre (UID# 253) 0  0

   September 25, 2007 at 4:28 pm

   looks kinda like water cooling, that’s the only reason those copper pipes would be there

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5. lord_gorlock (UID# 304) 0  0

   September 25, 2007 at 4:32 pm

   Actually, I believe those are heat pipes. A lot of the newer heat sinks are using them to take heat away from the processor faster.

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6. deutschlandia (UID# 1045) 0  0

   September 25, 2007 at 4:35 pm

   lol@synfyre

   those are very clearly heat pipes, water cooling systems don’t have giant fans and heatsinks in the case, that’s sort of the point.

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7. polyonymous (UID# 1132) 0  0

   September 25, 2007 at 5:27 pm

   It’s actually a CPU cooler from Zalman. I know this because I have one. Is nice!

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8. borandi (UID# 384) 0  0

   September 25, 2007 at 6:19 pm

   I always use Zalman coolers, but it looks like here they’ve put the 9500LED Zalman for CPUs onto this graphics card. This is an air fan – you wont see fins on a water cooling system until you get to the radiator.

   The hottest gfx card out there atm iirc is the X1900XT – fan isnt on full until the card hits 100ºC (212F), and cuts out at 120ºC.

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9. shanghai_factor (UID# 473) 0  0

   

   September 26, 2007 at 6:40 pm

   I had to build a new comp at work to run the router (not a network router, an actual table router). This was the CPU heatsink I chose, simply cause it was cheap. I found out later that it actually has a nice blue LED, which made me want to stealz it

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