Zalman vs Zerotherm

seanandnik

New Member
Well I built the rig in my signature 2 months ago and used a Zerotherm copper butterfly cpu cooler http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16835887001 (except mine was the model with a fan attached) and I also had an XFX 7900gs with the stock cooler. Well CPU temps were @ 92-95 f idle and gpu temps were 117f. I replaced the Zerotherm with a Zalman http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16835118019 and replaced the gpu stock cooler with a Zalman vf-900. Now cpu temps are 86-88f and gpu is 93f. Also gpu is a lot quieter. A big diff. in my opinion. Zerotherm had some good reviews but was just too new a company and Zalman has the better product for sure in my mind. I also switched thermal paste from AS5 to Zalman stg.
 

cryption

New Member
good deal, also you could look into Arctic Silver thermal paste, a personal preference of mine. I notice a little difference when using arctic silver.

When it comes to noise I'm a big fan of TMD, or Tip magnetic driven, fans since there are no ball bearings so there is much less fan noise, more just the air itself being pushed.
 

Burgerbob

Active Member
I have to agree about the Zalman, i have the CNPS9500. Remember that about the entire computing world uses Celcius for computer tempuratures, however.
 
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