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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. Wow, by Oculus+Habent · · Score: 5, Funny

    It wasn't too bad until they mentioned daisy-chaining five power supples together.

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    1. 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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    2. 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.

  2. Standard Units Please by LiquidCoooled · · Score: 5, Funny

    It doesn't matter how big it is, I want to know how many Han Solos it can freeze per minute.

    The world must know.

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  3. Wow by itchy92 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Well, since this is slashdot, even though the site won't load for me and I haven't seen the heatsink, let me just say: HOLY CRAP THAT'S HUGE!

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  4. slashdotted already... by alexandreracine · · Score: 5, Funny


    The shit just hit the fan.


    Sorry for the language, I just could not resist.

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  5. Wow by LewsTherinKinslayer · · Score: 5, Funny

    No less than 30 seconds after being posted, and subsequent slashdotting, no fewer than eighteen posts immediately use the same stale joke as me about how they could use that heatsink.

    We are a collectively sad bunch of nerds.

  6. That old stereotype? by chowdmouse · · Score: 5, Funny

    C'mon dude, it's been said time and time again that size doesn't matt....GOOD GOD! IT'S HUGE!

  7. 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.

  8. 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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  9. Working picture link by aicrules · · Score: 5, Funny

    http://www.uiaa.org/urbana/illinoisalumni/images/0 402_sculpting3.jpg

  10. 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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  11. Re:Why oh why, slashdotted before the first commen by ignorant_coward · · Score: 5, Insightful


    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.