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Zalman Showcase Massive P4 Heatsink

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the gonna-need-a-bigger-case dept.

Kez writes "I couldn't express the size of this heatsink in the space provided for the subject of this post. It's the size of a small country and when the fan is running, turbulence from it means a no-fly zone needs to enforced above it. At Hexus.net we've got a picture of this behemoth."

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  1. No comments and /.ed already? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

    Shouldn't /. take the initiative and post Coral cache links to these poor articles?

  2. Re:Wow, by Oculus+Habent · · Score: 5, Informative

    For all of you who can't see it, there's a picture of a heatsink - with six or eight heatpipes up to a 6-inch fan surrounded by copper fins - with a pack of cigarettes for comparison. It would make the heatsink over 1 foot tall. The text refers to 25 cubic meters per second of airflow, and a 1400 watt power requirement.

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  3. MIRROR by DJ_Goldfingerz · · Score: 5, Informative

    This should be the link for the mirror.

    Now let's start the "How slashdot should mirror before posting" thread.

  4. This has to be a joke by Paul+Crowley · · Score: 3, Informative

    You couldn't possibly fit a fan this big in any known case.

    Coral link to article

    Coral link direct to picture of fan

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  5. TFA by Mike+Peel · · Score: 3, Informative

    "It's long been known that Intel run a little hot, so Zalman have gone extreme with a cooling solution that finally does the biz.

    Pumping an impressive 25 cubic metres of air per second Zalman are confident that the 'Big Boy Turbo Mega Fan 2' will be able to keep any Intel CPU, up to and including the Pentium 4 670 3.8GHz, running cool in even the warmest conditions.

    Developed with the help of the British Aerospace wind tunnel engineers, the BBTMF can pump enough air to pop you double glazing out, so it comes with several precautionary notes, mainly involving the suction and loss of small pets whilst in the vicinity of your machine.

    Drawing an impressive 1400Watts of power, Zalman include a full instruction booklet on how to daisy chain 5 300W PSU's together to power the fan, and you get 50 starter cartridges free to get it spinning in the first place. Of course, you'll need a serious case upgrade too, and we would recommend the CoolerMaster 821 Garage, which comes with a tasteful variety of electronic doors and leaves enough room for even the largest GFX cards in SLI and a Nissan Micra too."

    Picture

    1. Re:TFA by rpozz · · Score: 3, Informative

      I think the small one is the real one, and the large one is for marketing purposes. Hexus could well have been trying to troll the whole slashdot community for troll tuesday, but instead got a melted server.

  6. PICTURE by Oculus+Habent · · Score: 5, Informative

    Took me a bit to dig through the cache, but here's a pic: Zalman Big Cooler

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  7. Direct Links and text by AndyFewt · · Score: 2, Informative
    Well here are some direct link to the image on various mirrors: Corel Cache Image Shack

    The article text:
    It's long been known that Intel run a little hot, so Zalman have gone extreme with a cooling solution that finally does the biz.

    Pumping an impressive 25 cubic metres of air per second Zalman are confident that the 'Big Boy Turbo Mega Fan 2' will be able to keep any Intel CPU, up to and including the Pentium 4 670 3.8GHz, running cool in even the warmest conditions.

    Developed with the help of the British Aerospace wind tunnel engineers, the BBTMF can pump enough air to pop you double glazing out, so it comes with several precautionary notes, mainly involving the suction and loss of small pets whilst in the vicinity of your machine.

    Drawing an impressive 1400Watts of power, Zalman include a full instruction booklet on how to daisy chain 5 300W PSU's together to power the fan, and you get 50 starter cartridges free to get it spinning in the first place. Of course, you'll need a serious case upgrade too, and we would recommend the CoolerMaster 821 Garage, which comes with a tasteful variety of electronic doors and leaves enough room for even the largest GFX cards in SLI and a Nissan Micra too.
  8. Re:Wow by MoonBuggy · · Score: 3, Informative
    Here's the Coralised image link. You can say it again now.

    Also the print friendly page and article text:
    Zalman get extreme with Pentium 4 cooling

    It's long been known that Intel run a little hot, so Zalman have gone extreme with a cooling solution that finally does the biz.

    Pumping an impressive 25 cubic metres of air per second Zalman are confident that the 'Big Boy Turbo Mega Fan 2' will be able to keep any Intel CPU, up to and including the Pentium 4 670 3.8GHz, running cool in even the warmest conditions.

    Developed with the help of the British Aerospace wind tunnel engineers, the BBTMF can pump enough air to pop you double glazing out, so it comes with several precautionary notes, mainly involving the suction and loss of small pets whilst in the vicinity of your machine.

    Drawing an impressive 1400Watts of power, Zalman include a full instruction booklet on how to daisy chain 5 300W PSU's together to power the fan, and you get 50 starter cartridges free to get it spinning in the first place. Of course, you'll need a serious case upgrade too, and we would recommend the CoolerMaster 821 Garage, which comes with a tasteful variety of electronic doors and leaves enough room for even the largest GFX cards in SLI and a Nissan Micra too.
  9. Mirror of pic by Alien54 · · Score: 5, Informative
    This not hosted on GeoCities, but on a file host tested by the power of F***

    Mirror here

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  10. Re:Wow, by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative
    I didn't know that countries today can be that small ...

    Well, it's only an order of magnitude smaller than the Vatican City Block. You could provide wireless internet coverage for the whole "country" with a single WRT54G.

  11. Re:Wow, by sixteenraisins · · Score: 4, Informative

    This was an almost-believable story. The biggest flaw is the 6-inch fan capable of moving 25 cubic meters of air per second, or on the order of 54,000 cfm.

    A fan that size isn't measured in watts, it's measured in horsepower. An axial (propeller) fan capable of moving that much air might be about six feet in diameter and be driven by a 10 hp motor.

    Maybe there's a typo in there - 25 cubic meters per minute (I know, not a proper SI unit) would be about 900 cfm, much more believable for a 6" fan, but still howling.

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  12. Re:Wow, by compro01 · · Score: 3, Informative

    actually, it would be measured in watts if you wanted. or kilowatts more accuritely.

    10 hp=7457 watts

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  13. Re:Wow, by WasteOfAmmo · · Score: 5, Informative
    Before your read through all the following posts stating "why it can't be real" and "holy crap is that huge" and "size does matter", read this:

    From this picture it looks like the picture that everyone is talking about is the marketing display unit on the left. This looks like a blown up version of the real unit (shown on the right side of the picture) used for the purposes of trade shows (and slash dot advertising) only!

    The quoted article is obviously a joke about the marketing version and not refering to the real heatsink unit shown on the right of the linked picture. Even though the real unit is not as large as a small dog and does not use 1.4 kW of power it is still an impressive unit.

    Yep, most of the above is my take on the article and may not be 100% correct but it does make more sense then the OP and some of the comments below.

    M.