Zalman CNPS7000A-CU Heatsink

[MediaMan]

The thought of hanging a heatsink that weighs nearly 2lbs. on the motherboard scared the crap out of me. I had nightmares about the socket giving way under the strain and this copper behemoth crashing down to the bottom of the pc case taking the processor and video card with it. The Zalman CNPS7000A-CU pure copper heatsink tips the scales at 733 grams (1.61 pounds) and, quite frankly, is one of the best heatsinks for noise, ease of installation and cooling efficiency.

Read it here (http://www.short-media.com/review.php?r=155)

[Geeky1]

So, in your opinion...

CNPS7000A-CU vs. SLK-900... which one is better, given the same airflow?

[MediaMan]

I don't have a SLK-900 therefore I cannot make that judgement. I was in "heatsink hell" for a year doing nothing but reviewing everybody's heatsink they threw at me. Some were small, some had screaming loud Deltas, some had 60 dBA fans, some were very strange looking....

This is the best for clip mount, cooling power and noise that I have worked with.

I did work with a previous SLK version a year back and it was impressive at that time of testing compared to the rest. The advantage to the SLK is that different fans can be mounted to it. The stock fan is loud though at 55 dBA.

SLK PROS

- can put other fans on
- will beat the 7000A-CU due to the SLK having tons more CFM. But won't beat it by much.

SLK CONS

- is most likely more prone to moutning problems from surrounding motherboard components.
- is louder
- is harder to mount the sink and fans


Stock sinks side by side...the CNPS7000A-CU is better.

[WuGgaRoO]

u should really test it out ASAP...why dont we get a short-media fund going on?? just to test and compare...also u can use different cfms and different fans to see how itll compare....is anyone else with me??

[CaffeineMe]

http://www.short-media.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=3355

Yes, it's heavy, but does an adequate job of cooling.

[MediaMan]

I have a contact over at Thermalright. I'll see if I can scare one up for just such an event.

[Spinner]

Nice review, it pretty much mirrored what I thought about the product. However, like I said in another thread, I had to mod mine so it could fit on my motherboard because the capacitors were too close. I had to file down one of the mounting clips, and I also had to saw off one end of the support clip (down to just one screw hole) so it would fit on. The latter problem being something that Zalman could have solved for me by including two different clips instead of merging two clips into one for all the compatible socket types. So the only problem I have with the heatsink is that its compatability with AMD boards, sucks!

But I love mine, and I like I said, I enjoyed the review.:thumbsup: