Our answer to Zalman: 0dBA project, rev.1

I took this device from Numano’s project and then I saw this device in TNN500 (maybe Zalman engineers also took this device from Numano’s make) it can help you to lower the temperature in passive systems, but only if it works well. And the plank did pin the thermo block to the radiator, but couldn’t force this heat remover to the radiator. And radiator’s thermal conductivity was not enough for normal heating – the upper side was very hot, while its lower side was a bit warm. And I changed one diagonal 3 mm duralumin plank to two 6 mm transversal ones.

When I screwed it I turned on the computer. Hurray! During 40-minutes of work the temperature reached 77C degrees (on a mother board). Then I launched S&M but in a half of the hour I again pushed reset button. But now it was the limit of my device – all was working as it should work and there was nothing to re-do. I only had a chance to lower the temperature on a few degrees. I stuck radiator's offcut on the processor thermo block with the help of Radial and one more, the bigger one – to the right utmost (two other were covered by a thermo block.

The result was positive: for the whole two-hour S&M working period the temperature was not more than 80 С degrees. It was summer heat and I decided that the result was satisfactory and I started final debugging and assembling.