Packaging:
The black box shown below is how the
Zalman CNPS9900 LED CPU cooler is sold. There are windows on the front and back faces of the box that provide a look at part of the actual cooler, and images elsewhere on the box provide more views of the unit in action. Text on the box details the features, specifications, and compatible processors.
The Basics:
The next set of images take a look at the
Zalman CNPS9900 LED CPU cooler. We see the intake side in the below left image, and the exhaust side in the below right image. Basically, there are two copper rings of cooling fins which are connected by a plastic shroud (which they call a tunnel), with a single cooling fan in the middle. The fan draws air in past the first set of copper rings, and exhausts it past the second set, with the tunnel helping to keep airflow linear.
There are six heatpipe 'pipes' that exit the cooler's copper base and rise up into the rings of copper cooling fins. The heatpipes are actually formed into loops, so there are a total of three heatpipe loops. One loop takes heat through the cooling ring on the intake side of the cooler, while the other two loops take heat through the cooling ring on the exhaust side of the cooler.
The plastic tunnel wraps all the way around the cooler's midsection, and is basically two hemispherical pieces held in place by a hinge at the top, and by two bolts at the bottom.
