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Computex 2005: Zalman whips out 'Big-Boy' flower to whip P4 into submission

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Published: Tuesday 31st May, 2005 | Author: Nick Haywood
Companies: Zalman (All Zalman content)

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Zalman get extreme with Pentium 4 cooling

Zalman get extreme with Pentium 4 cooling



It’s long been known that Intel run a little hot, so Zalman have gone extreme with a cooling solution that finally does the biz.

Pumping an impressive 25 cubic metres of air per second Zalman are confident that the ‘Big Boy Turbo Mega Fan 2’ will be able to keep any Intel CPU, up to and including the Pentium 4 670 3.8GHz, running cool in even the warmest conditions.

Developed with the help of the British Aerospace wind tunnel engineers, the BBTMF can pump enough air to pop you double glazing out, so it comes with several precautionary notes, mainly involving the suction and loss of small pets whilst in the vicinity of your machine.



Drawing an impressive 1400Watts of power, Zalman include a full instruction booklet on how to daisy chain 5 300W PSU’s together to power the fan, and you get 50 starter cartridges free to get it spinning in the first place. Of course, you’ll need a serious case upgrade too, and we would recommend the CoolerMaster 821 Garage, which comes with a tasteful variety of electronic doors and leaves enough room for even the largest GFX cards in SLI and a Nissan Micra too.

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Quote: Kez
http://www.hexus.net/content/reviews/review.php?dXJsX3Jldmlld19JRD0xMjE3

Christ! That's nearly as big as my Coolermaster Hyper 6! :shocked2:
But nowhere near as ridiculous. :p

Image: http://www.g-ray.co.uk/pictures/CMhyper6.jpg Quote

Quote: Kez
Pumping an impressive 25 cubic metres of air per second

My ass! Moving that much air would require about FIVE HUNDRED horsepower (about 375kW) and about an 8 foot diameter blade. 25 cubic feet per minute is far more likely.Quote
Erm, the article *is* in jest...Quote
I was talking to the Zalman guys today. There is a slight error in the article, it says that it was developed with British Aerospce, but I forgot to mention that they got the guys at Cern to do the bearings for them using there particel accelerator technology... hence the massive speeds, size and power consumption.

Unfortunately, given that the bearing is essentially a scaled down magnetic flux accelerator, they can't, at this time, shrink it anymore. This is due to the possibility of creating a singularity with the fan bearing at high speeds. They are working on it though.Quote

Quote: Nick
Unfortunately, given that the bearing is essentially a scaled down magnetic flux accelerator, they can't, at this time, shrink it anymore. This is due to the possibility of creating a singularity with the fan bearing at high speeds. They are working on it though.

i thought i'd buff up on magnetic flux accelerators and see if i could provide some assistance here, however during my research i saw the words 'disruptive discharge coil' and it brought back some memories of an indelicate incident...

does this help *?*Quote

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