I've been running my X2 3800+ overclocked at 2.6Ghz with 1.525 volts for quite some time now. While my old Zalman 7000B-Cu has served me admirably for nearly a year, but full load at 51 degrees celcius was too high for my safety zone.

I just don't feel safe with running water cooling right now, so I instead picked up a Zalman CNPS9500 HSF from the Egg. Unfortunately, I hadn't ordered it sooner, so I had to wait over the whole damn weekend just to get it tonight! AHH!!

Well, it finally came while I was taking a nap at 3:45, and I immediately rushed down the stairs to grab the box. I then saved all my F@H progress and shut down.

I pulled everything apart, and started reading the instructions. Oops, I needed to have the stock mounting hardware on it for it to work! I then had to run upstairs and pull apart my 3200+ setup to get the stock hardware off.

After swapping everything, I got the HSF installed. My God, this thing is H U G E! Wait until I get the pics online (in a bit). After installing everything back in, as well as the new black light I had also bought from the Egg, I got everything set up.

I then fired this baby up. Success! I jumped into the BIOS and confirmed that it had been installed correctly. My fan settings had somehow reset themselves, so I set it back, and booted into Windows. After launching both F@H instances, I gave it a minute and opened up Speedfan. It's sitting at ~39 degrees full load, and has stayed there for about 30 minutes now!

I LOVE this new cooler. Not only does it perform WAY better than my old 7000, it looks way cooler to boot!

*EDIT* I'll have the pictures uploaded later tonight. I'm going out to dinner, and i'm gonna meet Grandpanoob!

*UPDATE* I bumped the voltage to 1.55, and it's at the same temp! It's also Prime95 stable for over 2 hours now.

I'll get pics of GNoob in a bit. He's at the house right now.

We have all seen the cooler, post some pics of you and PGN already! (and yes I know I lived with you I know what you look like...)

Hope you guys have fun Have a beer on me

PICS!!!

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The mobo!!!




A close up of my X2. Damn sexy:



Look at the difference between the two HSF's!



Close-up of the fan:



Here is the 9500 installed on my motherboard. Damn it's huge!



The heatpipes:



Another shot of the heatpipes:



Here is a shot of the fins. It's literally like 2 7000B-Cu's put together. Also, look at how the heatpipes run through the fins:



Lastly, here is a shot of the rig with everything installed.

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Of course, you all want to see GrandpaNoob!

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holy crap the thing is huge..

jagermeister is the roxors

hey wait a sec, GPN does not look like a grandpa..what gives?

Of course, why get a better cooler, if I don't want to overclock it more!

Been running like this for over an hour now:

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I'm lucky to be in the presence of such a great PC.

Quote: Originally Posted by turbopsi I'm lucky to be in the presence of such a great PC.

Me... Xmas....Pwn.... All

Got Water?

all your cooler are belong to us

Quote: Originally Posted by LwrS10 all your cooler are belong to us

Ok you got me beat on the car...


In fact, both of you have me smoked in that category.

Quote: Originally Posted by SpikeShot Me... Xmas....Pwn.... All Got Water?

We are working on getting him water soon.

holy..... that thing is humongous O_O !! how much was it man?

Quote: Originally Posted by KiwiFlavor holy..... that thing is humongous O_O !! how much was it man?

About $75.

Quote: Originally Posted by SpikeShot Me... Xmas....Pwn.... All Got Water?

All I gotta say if I ever do get to make it down there is got Ice?

dammit this does it, I'm getting one of these things for my opty 146
great screenshots by the way, puts the size of the thing in perspective (I got the same mobo)

Quote: Originally Posted by Eastwood dammit this does it, I'm getting one of these things for my opty 146 great screenshots by the way, puts the size of the thing in perspective (I got the same mobo)

Excellent choice, man. You won't be disappointed. I bet 3Ghz+ won't be an issue with this thing.

BTW, welcome to Pimprig!

Quote: Originally Posted by Cpt.Planet All I gotta say if I ever do get to make it down there is got Ice?

The Winn-Dixie here has freaking dry ice. I was there cashing my check one day and was like WTF....

Then I started thinking about what I could use it for.

Grandpa isn't a grandpa, sorry...

Basically, the military has aged me beyond my years (or at least it feels that way to me), in terms of my knees and back, and I feel old enough to be someone's "grandpa" when I get up some mornings. I know enough to know I don't know enough, therefore the "noob" in the name...

Soon as I get up to Kansas, I'll post up some of the pics I took of Ator's machine (as further proof that I was actually there). Had a great evening out with Ator and Lwrs10+SO (also met turbo later that night ), wish we could actually have brought my new box down and set up a LAN or something... Maybe next time...

So, how sturdy is this thing when mounted? Would you say that having a cooler this size would limit the portablity of a system?

It actually looks sturdy.

Quote: Originally Posted by GrandpaNoob72 Grandpa isn't a grandpa, sorry... Basically, the military has aged me beyond my years (or at least it feels that way to me), in terms of my knees and back, and I feel old enough to be someone's "grandpa" when I get up some mornings. I know enough to know I don't know enough, therefore the "noob" in the name...

Thnx for clearing that up bro

I was like WTF.....your not a dads dad......your like, A PIMP!!!!!