Please post a pic of you Zalman 7000 installed...

yamahaSHO · Post by **yamahaSHO** » Fri Mar 12, 2004 1:42 am

Like the topic says... even better if you have the Zalman NB cooler too.

chylld · Post by **chylld** » Fri Mar 12, 2004 2:29 am

my system pre-watercooling:

motherboard is an asus a7n8x-e deluxe. case is an antec slk3700bqe.

nb heatsink is the stock one that came with the asus mb.

yamahaSHO · Post by **yamahaSHO** » Fri Mar 12, 2004 2:56 am

Thanks for posting that pic.!

What kind of heat sink is on your NB? It seams short enough to fit under the Zalman.

Also, do you have any profile shots of it installed? I would like to get a good idea of the room there is under the heat sink fins.
Thanks,

chylld · Post by **chylld** » Fri Mar 12, 2004 3:01 am

i didn't take any profile shots, sorry

but from memory, there was about 1-2mm clearance between the 7000 and the nb heatsink, which is a regular aluminium jobby.

instead of guessing by looking at pictures, i suggest looking at the compatibility table on the zalman website - this is what i did, and it gave me the confidence to buy the 7000 as it said that it'd fit on my motherboard.

yamahaSHO · Post by **yamahaSHO** » Fri Mar 12, 2004 3:04 am

I know the Zalman will not fit with the current NB HS I currently have... I was thinking of a Zalman ZM-NB47J for the NB and have the fins of the 7000 run through the NB cooler, or modify the NB cooler.

If all else fails, I gotta get a CPU cooler that will work and is pretty close in performance.

My MB:

chylld · Post by **chylld** » Fri Mar 12, 2004 3:12 am

i think the arctic cooling hsf's as well as the thermalright offerings are definitely worth a look, regardless of whether or not you've decided on the 7000 already.

having said that, i do know of someone who was in a similar predicament as you, and simply nibbed off some of the prongs on his nb47 so that the 7000 would fit. doesn't seem so hard to do and seems like a practical solution. if that seems like too much work, go for the nb32 which is shorter.

yamahaSHO · Post by **yamahaSHO** » Fri Mar 12, 2004 3:32 am

I have no problem cutting the NB HS, I just don't know how good that will look, cut aluminum and the blue coating. I hear the shorter one does not make full contact with the chipset...? Also, would the shoter one clear and be adequate for cooling during over clocking? I would like to install it using the stock mounts...

thanks again!

chylld · Post by **chylld** » Fri Mar 12, 2004 3:36 am

not sure about the pentium 4 platform, someone else will have to cover me there. for amd xp overclocking, the nb32 is perfectly adequate.

don't know anything about contact issues either.

Pjotor · Post by **Pjotor** » Fri Mar 12, 2004 5:22 am

Chylld,

I'm one of the nibbers. Worked without a problem, and the aluminum was very easy to snip off -- I was afraid the heatsink would become skewed, but that was a non-issue.

yamahaSHO · Post by **yamahaSHO** » Fri Mar 12, 2004 5:29 am

Pjotor,

Do you have any pics?

yamahaSHO · Post by **yamahaSHO** » Sat Mar 13, 2004 2:29 am

Just ordered my 7000 AlCu and a NB heatsink!!

Pjotor · Post by **Pjotor** » Sat Mar 13, 2004 3:55 am

@ yamahaSHO -- sorry, no I don't. Since I don't have a digital camera, it's too much trouble to take a picture, too.

BTW -- the coolers are installed on an Abit NF7-S 2.0 motherboard. Had to snip off one side of the 7000-AlCu mounting clip to make it fit, but it was very easy.

spacey · Post by **spacey** » Wed Mar 17, 2004 10:32 am

yamahaSHO · Post by **yamahaSHO** » Thu Mar 18, 2004 7:29 pm

Well, I went ahead and got the Zalman... I will probably have to do some trimming, so we'll see how it turns out.

burcakb · Post by **burcakb** » Mon Apr 19, 2004 2:22 am

Case is a Sonata. Mobo is DFI Lanparty Ultra. NB HS is the stock alu thing.

Here's a closeup:

You can't see it from this pic but there's a row of 4 high capacitors UNDER the Zalman. Despite everyone saying it would fit, I just didn't believe the capacitors would clear. They did- barely.

For all pics of my system try this link

zoob · Post by **zoob** » Mon Apr 19, 2004 5:19 pm