It actually seems that they may be using a crude 939 to AM2 adapter in order to fit the cooler to a more recent AMD motherboard.

Hi all, I was doing some research into buying a new (& hopefully silent) PC when I found this wonderful forum. From what I've seen I'm quite impressed with the Zalman TNN 300 as a fanless and thus (almost) silent workstation and I may be able to get one. I'm just not sure if it's feasable to build a...

thejamppa wrote:HTPC made in Solo and cooled with Mugen2. Sounds intresting. I hope you get pictures soon ^^

Ditto I'd also love to see pictures of this setup. I really like the current range of Antec cases.

I also think a dedicated GPU socket would be much better than the current situation. But it's just like QWERTY vs. DVORAK keyboards - the currnet form of ATX is the standard today and it would be too difficult for the whole industry to suddenly get out of that standard onto something better.

I was recently looking to buy a netbook and what struck me is the fact that so few of them are fanless. I mean, with so little power do they really need fans? Especially in the case of netbooks with VIA CPUs for eg rather than Atoms.