are they tring to compinsate for something!!!!

Submitted by mojosico on Thu, 06/04/2009 - 10:14am

MOJOSICO says DAAAMM !!! will that bad boy even fit in a case or do you have to make a custom side panel for it........

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Getting ridiculous

Submitted by digital demon on Wed, 06/03/2009 - 9:49pm

Zalman is starting to remind me of Intel near the end of the P4 days. Don't make it better, just make it faster...or in this case, bigger. I mean, seriously...come on. That thing is going to have trouble fitting in most normal sized cases and I can almost guarantee it's going to get blown away by coolers from lesser know companies. So what's the point? And a wired remote? So you have to leave it dangling in your case and open it up every time you want to adjust the fan speed? Greeeeeat idea.

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Why doesn't Zalman actually

Submitted by kiaghi7 on Wed, 06/03/2009 - 5:10pm

Why doesn't Zalman actually focus on making a heatsink that can actually compete with the best ones out there, regardless of their size, rather than continuing to fight for the most unnecessary and overpriced titles.

 

For pete's sake it's easy enough to name a dozen, or two, other heatsinks witch completely trounce their best efforts and are not only cheaper, but don't resort to Zalman's nonsense by compensating for what they lack with useless fluff.

 

They are yet to make any significant inroads against Scythe for sheer quietness, nor are they making any significant ground against the other manufacturers out there like Titan, Xigmatech (big nod there), Thermoright, or even Sunbeam who's winning recipe is still not only competitive but arguably the "gold standard" which everyone else is doing their best to clone and improve upon to this day.

Until I see Zalman put less plastic and more competence into their heatsinks I am going to remain unimpressed. Independent reviews (i.e. not advertising motivated) routinely seperate the men from the boys in this area, and no amount of make up is going to make a pig of a heatsink into a prom queen... More like a drag queen in this case :D

 

To Zalman's credit, they are at least going to the upright cooling tower with "heatpipes and fins galore" design, but how well they've done it, and their colossal blunder of omitting the most obvious route that would be to add options for a second, third, and even a fourth fan (that can all be replaced with whatever you want) is a huge mistake on their part that will haunt them when compared to the competition that CAN do just that, such as the Scythe Infinity/Mugen and Thermalright Ultra 120 among others.

 

At this point, they are still building Pinto's in a world populated with Ferraris, Lamborghini, McLarens, and Bugattis... Another generation or two if this same concept, and they will be where other manufacturers were at the turn of the millenium.

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Well

Submitted by Cache on Wed, 06/03/2009 - 2:50pm

We've seen big heatsinks before, and while size matters--sometimes the big ones just let you down.  I'll wait for a review, but stick with my xigmatek for the time being.  Besides... a wired remote?  Come on, I haven't used a wired remote since we owned a betamax VCR.

What next?  Yelling to a midget located inside the case to adjust the dial up or down?

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If the remote was wireless

Submitted by Defiant on Wed, 06/03/2009 - 2:35pm

If the remote was wireless that would just seal the deal :P

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Larger than remote holder's hand!

Submitted by bingojubes on Wed, 06/03/2009 - 2:08pm

holy cow thats a large cooler. and i thought the 9900 was big. that's bigge r than the hand holding the remote! i don't see how that thing will defy gravity if hanging sideways. i can picture it only being mounted upright, but not sideways, for sure, unless u have some good string or some ties to suspend the heavy end in the case.

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LOL

Submitted by SEALBoy on Wed, 06/03/2009 - 1:35pm

Have fun mounting that son of a bitch!

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