Zalaman Cpu Coolers , do they work or are they a gimmick?

[Bald-Eagle11]

Ok Guys n Gals

With the recent hot weather in the UK my CPU has been running at 45c . Its a Athlon 64 Dual Core 4200+

If i fitt the following will i see a noteworthy differnce or should i save my pennies ?

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Zalman-CNPS9500-AM2-Athlon-64-Heatsink-Fan-9500-AM2_W0QQitemZ330010790653QQihZ014QQcategoryZ42001Q QrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

If that one is no good can anyone recomend a good one , i dont wanna go down the water path as i have fiddly children .

Many thx

[Habib_al_Mahu]

Hello.

I have the 9500 and it is superb. It is large so it wont fit well in a small case and the fins are sharp. It fits most mother boards though. New egg had it for 49 recently and its often on sale.

[mlkmnz]

Zalman are the way to go. I don't know the name of mine (it was donated to me) but it looks pretty similar to yours, and my machine never goes over 35c at full load.

[Bald-Eagle11]

Are they easy to fit ?

[HDL_CinC_Dragon]

My CPU is an Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.60GHz (2 CPUs) which i OCed to about 3.8Ghz. I have a Zalman CPU cooler with heat pipe technology and it cools my CPU better that i could could have imagined. The stock CPU fan and heat sink that came with it were so inaffective that 1 minute into boot u, my system would start beeping inermittenly every second warning me of over heat and then shut itself down(Auto shutdown is 185* fahrenheit) and that was before i OCed (I didnt even get a chance to). I baught the Zalman and my CPU runs smoothly at 100* - 110* Fahrenheit at 3.8Ghz! I am VERY pleased with Zalman.

http://us.st11.yimg.com/us.st.yimg.com/I/yhst-24067115789173_1904_7115314

It isnt the easiest thing to install as it requires you to completely take the Mobo out of the case but with results like this, a few extra minutes of install time is A Okay by me.


heres a good site with some very good information on it
http://www.coolerguys.com/840556025061.html

[ELI]

Yes indeed. Their GPU cooling fans are awesome too. It dropped my vidcard's temp from Idle- 63 C Loaded - 85~88 C down to 48 C Idle and Loaded........... 55 C :D . I could not believe the difference it made.