Computex 2005 Day 2 - ULi's new Athlon 64 Chipset, G70, CrossFire & more
by Anand Lal Shimpi on June 1, 2005 1:57 AM EST- Posted in
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Impressive Cooling from Zalman
A little over a week ago in LA we met up with Zalman after E3 to talk about their new products. Back then they told us that they were working on a new CPU cooler, the 9500, that would offer better cooling than any conventional cooler on the market.
At Computex, Zalman introduced their new cooler:
The heatsink uses 3 heat pipes that are looped around the circular cooler.
Here is a picture of the 9500 in use on an ASUS SLI motherboard:
Like all previous Zalman coolers, the 9500 will be available as both an AMD and Intel cooler.
Zalman was also showing off their TNN 300 chassis, a smaller version of their TNN 500. Like its bigger brother, the TNN 300 is entirely passively cooled using the chassis as a heatsink for the network of heat pipes that runs throughout the case:
Even the power supply is passively cooled; the PSU is contained within the left door of the TNN 300 as you can see from the picture below - the motherboard plugs into the door.
The 350W Power Supply can be seen here, the power supply will power any single GPU graphics card without any problems
Unfortunately, the case will only accept micro ATX motherboards, which will limit its success in the channel market. There have been a number of system builders that have expressed interest in offering Media Center PCs based on the new TNN 300 however.
Below you can see the TNN 300 and the larger TNN 500 in the background:
Like the TNN 500, the 300 will be quite expensive. The current target price is around $800, which is much better than the $1300 that the TNN 500 is selling for but still extremely expensive for a case.
The TNN 300 uses heat pipes to cool the graphics card and CPU as well, so the only component making noise in your system will be your HDD. Like the TNN 500, the TNN 300 is just plain silent.
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erwos - Wednesday, June 1, 2005 - link
Quick question for you, Anand: when you say DDR200 in reference to the i-RAM card, do you mean PC3200 or PC1600?It would seem to make zero sense to use PC3200 RAM, when the PCI bus is already limiting you to 133mb/s anyways. I hope they're using low-clocked RAM (makes more sense!), which is cheaper anyways...
I guess there's some latency differences, but at the nanosecond range, who's going to notice?
-Erwos
ryanv12 - Wednesday, June 1, 2005 - link
#4 - Yeah, I'm in the same boat. I want to upgrade my processor but would like to hang onto my 6800GT for a while. I hope that board makes its way to the US, because it would be a perfect solution for me.bersl2 - Wednesday, June 1, 2005 - link
lol on ABIT's nuke button.Oh joy, DRM rears its ugly head again.
erwos - Wednesday, June 1, 2005 - link
So, does this mean the Shuttle SN26P got cancelled? Damn.semo - Wednesday, June 1, 2005 - link
if the nvidia g70 card is a single slot solution than the rumor that the g70 will burn 150w cannot be true right. anyone know what is the actual power rating for the g70?mjz - Wednesday, June 1, 2005 - link
lets see some real world tests done with the gigbyte ram drive :pplewis00 - Wednesday, June 1, 2005 - link
That all looks quite exciting, the thing which caught my eye was the Pentium M XPC. I wonder now if Shuttle do one they'll get it right (Aopen's was cool but no SATA support...). Anyone know the model number for it?flatblastard - Wednesday, June 1, 2005 - link
congratualtions=congratulationsflatblastard - Wednesday, June 1, 2005 - link
Whew, that's was a lot of coverage, anand! I'll have to admit though, I was more interested in the vanilla Xpress 200 motherboards than crossfire/r520/g70/blah/blah/yawn.....Did you happen to notice any new Xpress 200 + socket 939 mobos? Even if you didn't have a chance to cover them, I'd be interested to know if you've seen/heard anything new. Well, congratualtions on another job well done.SynthDude2001 - Wednesday, June 1, 2005 - link
That ULi chipset/motherboard with support for both AGP and PCI-Express really caught my eye. It would be a nice upgrade path for those of us still stuck with slower CPU's (Athlon XP in my case), but not quite ready to upgrade our high-end AGP video card yet (6800GT in my case).