Zalman is one of my all time favourite in cheap and loads of features and break through design first of all with some of their design features they have some of the better aesthetics for cooling a CPU, for instance they have one of those CPU coolers that don’t need a large bottom layer in their Cooler because the heat-pipes all of them copper material, are to travel up to the fins and dispense then through their, eliminating the need of space in the CPU socket base, and for those who have in example, an ASUS P5Q3 deluxe.
But the Zalman CNP has the same characteristic as the previous Zalman coolers but with a certain difference as with the cooler however it is from the difference between the older version of it and this one, only being surrounded by the copper fins and a plastic cover in the middle of the cooler itself so the real purpose of the cooler is to efficiently use all of the copper possible with the asking price also low a $100. The CNP comes with a large fan that shots out good use of colour so design and appeal is not being undone plus also the heat-pipes and even the base with the likes of the fins are covered with copper material the only substance in earth that has a great effective heat-dispassion over aluminium and ordinary metal. But the fan also being sandwiched by the two copper fins, we have some theoretical phase of air passing through to the cooler it may be the same concept of the original coolers in one side is where the cool air goes in and the hot air comes out, it may be that or in one side it passes in one side and expand the air to cover all of the possible areas in the cooler. But our doubts are sure looked at, because it still retains the old on and out theory and with the cooler having about few cm away from the ground it has its three copper legs to transfer heat- effectively and hold it into place with the base of th4 cooler has a mix of nickel based metal and a copper face to touch the CPU heat- expansion. And also it is capable of going either AMD or Intel socket types.
But this cooler however looks a more promising look, and as we see in the performance test in idle mode show that it has a rather hot 43 degrees in a QX6850 and load at 65 degrees, also with noise levels down at 55dBA not as worse as any other low cost CPU cooler. But most of the time this can work better in some forms like having a much flatter surface and eliminate the use of double heat-sinks, but overall a good cooler able to handle a heat of s quad core.
