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RocKerClocKer
733mhz
Registered: January 2006
Location: Atlanta, GA
Posts: 146
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Would you recommend the product? Yes |
Price you paid?: $89.00
| Rating: 10
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Relatively Quiet, Easy Install, Great Performance
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Rather large size, may not fit in some rigs.
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Zalman's entry into the heat-pipe arena is quite a beauty.
All Copper construction and a lot less weight than it's predecessor the 7700CU this cooler is 'da bomb' with performance that rivals the XP-90 with a fan.
Installation on the AMD base Mobo is painless and quick.
Highly Recommended.
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" read, read, read, do  read, read, read, do " The Very Wise Overclocker
Operation Shark Tooth CPU-Z Verification
Fold for Team 37726 !!!
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OverclockedAMD
733mhz
Registered: February 2006
Location: United Kingdom
Posts: 166
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Would you recommend the product? Yes |
Price you paid?: None indicated
| Rating: 10
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Pros:
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All copper, Astheticly Pleasing, LED Fan
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Big and Heavy , Expensive
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Great cooler, keeps my very hot 1.65volt overclocked fx55 clawhammer at 30idle and 55degrees full load
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born2killU
4.0ghz
Registered: August 2005
Location: Atlanta GA
Posts: 3296
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Would you recommend the product? Yes |
Price you paid?: $58.99
| Rating: 10
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Pros:
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FREEZING - big but not too big - Blue leds - quiet - everything else about it
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None
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This product is amazing - it keeps my 3700 sandy at under 40c overclocked to 3.0 with the fan on low
i cant find a way to get my cpu to go over 40c even doing burn in test for 6 hrs I LOVE IT!!!
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 My Water Setup
Laing D5 - Storm G5 - 2x EK7900 Full Face - Black Ice Pro 360 - EK Res150 - Distilled H2O |
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Bdog
3.5ghz
Registered: February 2006
Location: Point Roberts, WA, USA
Posts: 665
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sleepy127
4.0ghz
Registered: April 2005
Location: Stationed in Belgium
Posts: 1039
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Would you recommend the product? Yes |
Price you paid?: $57.00
| Rating: 7
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Well made, good directions, fan controler, quiet
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expensive
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When I installed I was expecting a fairly decent drop in temps but I guess the stock cooler for my X2 is a good one because my load temp only went down about 1 degree. If you have the stock X2 cooler do not buy this, you dont need it but if you have the cooler that comes with single core processors go ahead and spring for it, I am sure you will be pleased. Watch out for some of them though, there have been a few complaints of the bottom not being flat, affecting cooling greatly.
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guyladouche
4.0ghz
Registered: January 2007
Posts: 1599
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Would you recommend the product? Yes |
Price you paid?: $49.99
| Rating: 10
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Pros:
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Efficient, great cooler, quiet
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None
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This is a great aftermarket cooler for those that don't OC hardcore, but want a bit of extra cooling performance over stock coolers without loud fans.
PROS: Quiet. Variable fan speed controller. Mounting surface came with a mirror-shine (no need for lapping!). Airflow follows case airflow with HSF exhaust blown directly to the rear case fan. Fan speed on low keeps my stock 4400+ at about 28C (70F ambient). On load in Orthos, it doesn't go much higher than 49C, and usually stays around 45C while gaming.
CONS: Was difficult to mount at first, but isn't that much of a problem. Fan speed on max is a bit loud, but it significantly cools off the CPU quickly. A bit on the expensive side considering alternative HSF's that work more efficiently are priced as cheap/cheaper (but are also much larger).
I don't see much of a difference when the fan is on high or low as far as CPU temp goes--which means that the heat sink is very efficient (though I would not advise disconnecting the fan completely...). This is a great cooling upgrade from a stock cooler.
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Ross1308
3.5ghz
Registered: July 2007
Location: Wales, Newport
Posts: 728
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Would you recommend the product? Yes |
Price you paid?: None indicated
| Rating: 10
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Very Efficient, Quiet and Cools E6600 No Problem
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Quite Expensive But Worth It
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Very good cooler for the money easy to install but takes someone with quite small hands very quiet and the blue Led light is a great touch with all the copper it has Six Heatpipes and a solid Copper base comes with Thermaltake's very own Thermal Paste which i find very good it keeps my Core 2 Duo E6600 At 20 Degres Idle and around 30 to 40 Max load but i live in Wales and it is quite cold here all in all a very very very good Heatsink recommended to anyone who wants to overclock without using water cooling although i am getting water cooling Just for Fun. once again a 10/10 Product weldone Zalman
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However, if you don't have your PS3 up and folding, Admin will secretly break into your house at night and light your PS3 on fire ... so watch out ...
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Nightmare197
1.3ghz
Registered: April 2007
Location: Montreal, Quebec
Posts: 226
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Would you recommend the product? Yes |
Price you paid?: $60.00
| Rating: 10
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Pros:
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Effective and Great looks
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Cons:
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Motherboard removal
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Excellent cooler for the size it's very silent and efficient at it's minimum setting...
The only ding is the motherboard removal that if if you're installing it in an existing system... If you are building a new system the just install the bracket before installing the mobo... (doh!)
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Currently Running Win XP Pro SP3 / Ubuntu Linux
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Jetpil0t
333mhz
Registered: December 2007
Location: Australia
Posts: 34
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Would you recommend the product? Yes |
Price you paid?: $60.00
| Rating: 8
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Pros:
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Great cooling, Runs Quiet, Multi-Directional Airflow
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Cons:
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Expensive, Large footprint, Required Motherboard Removal
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I have this and a CNPS9700NT.
Starting off these are both quite expensive coolers and while they both show great performance, for the price range, they are not the best when compared to Sythe and Thermalright solutions.
They both have quite low noise levels on low RPMs, but with the fan speed turned all the way up they do make quite a bit of noise.
The large footprint of the CNPS9700 series may quiet easily block larger NB coolers and in some cases may be required to mount vertically to avoid coming into contact with other MB components or even a PSU in some tighter case setups.
They are both great performers, quiet, can be mounted in various ways to direct airflow, air flows out all side of cooler, not just a single direction and mount fairly well.
However the cons would be the mounting required MB removal, Very large footprint on the 9700 required undesirable mounting orientation, loud when high RPMS and expensive.
*** On particular 650SLI motherboards the 9500 and 9700 mounting plate comes into contact with solders on the back of the board which require either the mounting plate to be modified or fudged installation by bending the plate. This happened on both a Gigabyte board and an Asus board.
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pioneerisloud
The head boob
Registered: June 2007
Location: Yakima, WA
Posts: 4992
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Would you recommend the product? No |
Price you paid?: $69.99
| Rating: 5
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Pros:
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Very pretty cooler, looks dead sexy in my computer!
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Doesn't cool too well unless you've got great airflow.
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Well my short comments pretty much said it all already. I bought this cooler because I heard that it and the 9700 were the best air coolers out. What a disappointment! As it turns out, these kind of coolers ONLY work well if you've got excellent airflow in your case (such as the Antec 900 or Thermaltake Armor). For those of us on cheaper end cases, its much better to buy a cooler that blows directly down on the motherboard instead of out the back. The only thing I could think of to fix this issue would be to mod the case fan grills out so you get better airflow.
It does look dead sexy though! That's the only reason I've kept it this long. On stock voltage on my Opteron 165 I load at 68*C...a little bit warm, but oh well.
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markkleb
1.7ghz
Registered: May 2006
Location: Reno, Nevada
Posts: 369
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Would you recommend the product? Yes |
Price you paid?: $50.00
| Rating: 8
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Pros:
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Beautiful to look at
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cost
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I remember seeing these coolers and thinking I REALLY wanted one. I just love the design aspect.
I bought the AM2 version (black and chrome W/green lighting) about 2 weeks before the 9700 came out (oops). Even so I have had it quite a while and it has worked well. I dont use the controller as the noise isn't that bad.
The mount is very nice and simple to use.
I would say this is a upper middle of the road cooler that looks really COOL.
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CorryBasler
4.0ghz
Registered: June 2008
Location: Camdenton, Missouri
Posts: 1237
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Would you recommend the product? Yes |
Price you paid?: $59.99
| Rating: 9
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Pros:
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Very Cool in both ways(temps and looks)
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Cons:
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A little big, Can not replace fan with a higher flow fan
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I love this cooler, It cools my AMD Anthlon 4400+ x 2 that is overclocked to 3 GHZ with a 22C idle and 42 Load. It is very cool looking also. I love that it is all copper and chrome platted. The bottom is Very and i meen very shiny and smooth The clip is very easy to install on a MoBo even with out removing it the MoBo i mean. You just clip and go. I don't like that the fan is not removable and has a green led because all my lights and other fans are blue . Its nVidia themed so thats why its green
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 Intel does it first, AMD does it right!
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We're geeks.... so can you explain this vagina thing?
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all I did was pushed a few things into slots and did a bit of screwing.
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Fossil
4.0ghz
Registered: October 2007
Location: Phoenix, AZ
Posts: 1054
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Would you recommend the product? Yes |
Price you paid?: $48.99
| Rating: 10
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Pros:
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Excellent cooler, quiet, nickel-plated option with green LED's
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Cons:
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huge
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I love this cooler, especially when it came in the nickel color. I don't care for the green LED's, but they are easier on the eyes than the blue ones on the copper colored one.
It is very quiet considering it spins at 2400rpm. My CPU runs extremely cool with Arctic Silver 5 applied. I average 25C idle and no higher than 45C on load.
It was a pain in the ass to install this thing since it's so freaking huge. I thought many times I was going to snap the motherboard or my CPU in half or something. But hey, at least you know it's going to make good contact with the CPU, LOL.
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Hello. I had an idea today to use aluminum foil as ram heat spreaders!
Got some foil, folded it into a ram sized rectangle, then rubbed it on the floor to make it a bit smooth ^_-. There's the ram also (2GB, 667MHz)
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dark_eternal_knight
1.7ghz
Registered: June 2008
Location: Newcastle/Southampton Uni
Posts: 300
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Would you recommend the product? Yes |
Price you paid?: $40.00
| Rating: 8
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Pros:
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value for money, accidentally discovered fanless ability
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noise levels when unrestricted, uneven contact patch
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living in the UK, i had always remembered zalman products for being scarily expensive and aesthetically very nice.
The CNPS9500 in question could either be known as the NT model, or an AM2 model, given its nvidia branding, dark metals used and illumination colour scheme.
This was the very first non-stock CPU cooler I still have the pleasure of owning today. The two things that I instantly noticed before and after installing the CNPS9500, was that my thumb hurt alot from fitting the bracket to the motherboard, which left me thinking that at least I was safe in the knowledge that it was definitely touching the processor, and that it came with a zalman fanmate2 fan speed controller.
I was originally running an AMD Athlon X2 5200+ 90nm, and was averaging around 55-60°C under general use, and a rather noisy 70-80°C when gaming or under heavy load with the AM2 Stock cooler.
The differences in temperatures astounded me, with the fanmate2 turned to minimum, I was averaging around 45°C under general use and around 60°C when gaming or under heavy load. with the fanmate2 turned to maximum, general use temperature could not be determined, because it equalled room temperature, heavy load/gaming temperatures were in the region of 50-60°C.
I can accidentally say, that due to a fallen free wire, i ran this CPU cooler for three weeks (cleaning interval) fanless. This could never be said for any stock CPU cooler by either AMD or Intel.
Upon purchasing this cooler 9 1/2 months ago and having given it some quite tough testing with both an Athlon X2 5200+ and since march an AMD Phenom X4 9850 Black, I can honestly say this is the best desperate purchase I have ever made in my history of custom-building, and have since purchased two of the CNPS9500's bigger brother, the CNPS9700 for the two computers my family run at home.
I highly recommend this product to anyone interested in a non-stock cooler, however I do not recommend this model for overclocking, as its bigger brother the 9700 can most likely take care of those matters a little better than this model.
Living in the UK, I should also state that it cost me £20 or $40USD
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