Zalman Showcase Massive P4 Heatsink

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."

Comments

Speed is no longer the biggest selling point

[3770]

For me speed is no longer the biggest selling point for a CPU.

It is on second place after power consumption.

Re:Why oh why, slashdotted before the first commen

[Anonymous Coward]

I get "Connection refused" when clicking on that link.

Perhaps if the utter airheads who operate NYUD actually ran their web server on the IANA mandated port 80, their site would actually be working.

Size Doesn't Matter

[Ruzty]

Everyone knows that expressing greater surface area is more important than size for heat dissipation. Simply making the fins thinner and folding them into crinkles should significantly improve performance of the heatsink. There is no need to make them this big.

I'm thinking a metalic design like currogated cardboard with air blown through the "tubes" between the layers should work very well. This would fit in well with a pass through fan design pushing air from the front of the case to the back right through the tubes. Just align the heatsink properly and go. No more need for seperate, big CPU fans mounted right onto the heatsink.
-Rusty

Re:Size Doesn't Matter

[SharpFang]

There are two elements. Transmission surface is one thing. Temperature gradient is the other. One is achieved by more smaller fins, the other, by air flow. As long as you can pump enough air into the tubes, all right. But if your air leaves the tubes at 60 degrees, the processor won't be cooler than that. This design seems to use elephantine fan to provide enough airflow to keep the fins temperature low. If the surface was bigger, it would be harder to make air flow efficiently. Sure this one seems a bit over-the-top, but if you go too far with the surface, you end up with construction too fragile to apply a fan strong enough :)

Re:No comments and /.ed already?

[Anonymous Coward]

That's a great idea. That way, nobody except lazy college students will be able to access the site due to the stupidity of it running on port 8090 rather than the IANA mandated port 80, and thus it failing to be passed by every firewall that has any credibility whatsoever.

Re:Wow

[Otter]

Here's the Coralised image link [nyud.net]...

HOLY CRAP THAT'S HUGE!

Re:This has to be a joke

[trentblase]

From TFA:

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.

Seriously people, it's a JOKE. Stop trying to explain why it'll never work because it uses 1.4KW.

Mock-up

[RedShoeRider]

Because no one has posted what I think this is:

A mock up for a computer show.

If you look in the background of the picture, it looks like there are Zalman posters hanging up, like you'd have at a booth. Made much smaller, they might have an interesting idea for an effective CPU cooler (as Zalman has come up with some pretty neat ideas over the years, I'd almost expect something like this for them). The text is just for fun.

I'd assume everyone on here would understand humor when they saw it....but....

Re:NOT FUNNY: Chinese Military Computers

[rpdillon]

So wait, some guy expressing a US-bashing political opinion in a thread about A NEW HEATSINK gets +5 Insightful?

What happened to -37, So Absurdly Offtopic It's Not Even Funny?

Re:Why oh why, slashdotted before the first commen

[ignorant_coward]

Actually, web sites that cannot stand Slashdotting are badly designed. Ace's Hardware survived a Slashdotting using a single ~500MHz UltraSPARC II server, running Java no less.

I think people just don't realize how powerful even an ancient CPU is at pushing data, when it isn't running GNOME. Think about it, whole companies ran data centers on systems less powerful than a $400 PC not twenty years ago.