Finally! Scythe Zipang officially announced with "pieps

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Finally! Scythe Zipang officially announced with "pieps

Post by Felger Carbon » Thu Jan 17, 2008 7:45 pm

Not "6 heat pipes", "6heat pieps". See here.

Also a low-profile shelf HSF, the "Shuriken" (probably translates as "shorty"), with a new 100mmx12mm fan with lotsa blades. 64mm high. Use the above Zipang link to see it.

And a fan controller in 5.25" and 3.5" versions which I seem to have seen a pre-release of(?).

The cheapie (<$20) infrared thermometer previously announced is now for sale at Directron in black and white models.

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Post by jaganath » Fri Jan 18, 2008 4:46 am

the "Shuriken" (probably translates as "shorty")
[url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shuriken]Shuriken (手è£

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Post by thejamppa » Fri Jan 18, 2008 5:51 am

That Shuriken cooler looks really good to me. Too bad you can't see the fin spacing...
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Post by ceraf » Fri Jan 18, 2008 5:53 am

i don't see any blades coming out of the shuriken. =)

that's quite a thin fan on that though.

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Post by Felger Carbon » Fri Jan 18, 2008 6:29 am

thejamppa wrote:That Shuriken cooler looks really good to me. Too bad you can't see the fin spacing...
Besides being really thin, that's only a 100mm fan. That's small. And that means the cooling grid just under the fan, which is obviously thin, also has a very small area...

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Post by Brian » Tue Jan 22, 2008 5:31 am

You can see the fin pitch in this photo:
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The fins are very close together. <2mm, I'd say. Therefore, the heatsink is optimized for relatively high airflow, and is probably neither silent nor very silencable.

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Post by NeilBlanchard » Tue Jan 22, 2008 5:57 am

Hello Brian,

I think you are pretty close: I counted 67 fins, and the fan is a 140mm, and it seems to overhang a bit; so 125mm / 67 = 1.87mm. Which is unfortunate.

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Post by murtoz » Tue Jan 22, 2008 6:45 am

direct link to the shuriken cooler...
with a thin 13-blade fan which looks very interesting.

Does anyone know how accurate scythe normally is with their dBa ratings? They claim 10.5dBA at 650rpm...

And I just love the engrish marketing blurb on the zipang as well:
scythe wrote:Rising of golden Zipang country is now back in 21st century! Never ending development is here!

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Post by psiu » Sun Jan 27, 2008 6:22 am

those fan controllers seem pretty nice:

choice of silver or black;
5.25" or 3.5" models (4 temps/fans or 2 temps/fans);
output voltages of 0V and 3.7-12V.

and not too "blingy" looking.

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Post by Tzupy » Mon Jan 28, 2008 5:23 am

According to this article at vr-zone, the orientation of the Zipang's heatpipes matters:
http://www.vr-zone.com/articles/Scythe_ ... 536-5.html

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Post by francis12 » Tue Feb 05, 2008 4:33 am

I think this heatsink should do good mostly if you have a fan on the case panel, otherwise it shouldn't perform too well.

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Post by Willy Higinbotham » Sat Feb 09, 2008 11:04 am

francis12 wrote:I think this heatsink should do good mostly if you have a fan on the case panel, otherwise it shouldn't perform too well.
And you could connect the fan on the HSF to a fan on the side panel with a duct. Run both fans at the lowest rpm and there you'd have a nice setup. This would also let you *I think* to omit the rear case fan.

I like the idea.

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Post by Felger Carbon » Sat Feb 09, 2008 2:13 pm

murtoz wrote:Does anyone know how accurate scythe normally is with their dBa ratings? They claim 10.5dBA at 650rpm...
An interesting question on several levels. First, Scythe is a marketing company. They do not design, manufacture, or test fans. They use the maker's numbers, obtained from the acoustic testing facility that particular fan maker uses.

Second, I know of no testing facility anywhere that can directly measure 10.5dBA at one meter. That number comes from a form of extrapolation. Which one? I dunno. Two methods I've used are close-miking - 10.5dBA/1m = 16.5dBA/.5m = 22.5dBA/.25m in an anechoic chamber, or testing at higher RPM - 10.5dBA at 650RPM is about 28.5dBA at 1300RPM, for example. Any form of extrapolation is impure, of course, but a close number is IMHO more useful than no number at all.

SPCR religiously stays with measurements made at 1 meter, which is why their measurements commonly bump up against the noise floor. But they perform measurements in a live room... some numbers are better than no numbers at all, and anechoic chambers are doggone expensive. :(

Back to your original question: I personally think 10.5dBA/650RPM is reasonable for a 13-blade thin 100mm fan. The problem is, if you want a more authoritative opinion, you'd have to find a professional who a) has tested that fan b) in an anechoic chamber c) who is a disinterested party. There are over 6.5 billion rock apes on this globe, and not one of them meets those criteria. :P

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Post by Skinjob » Mon Feb 18, 2008 9:59 am

FrostyTech has a review up claiming it's nearly silent and has quite good cooling.

http://www.frostytech.com/articleview.c ... cleID=2248

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