I’ve had the 9500 for a time. Not the best cooler for an FX8350 but I wasn’t doing much with that CPU.
MorriTheFur
old
Hattix
That’s one of the Zalman CNPS series. They’re conceptually a tower cooler, but curved.
Now everyone’s boring.
Tyz_TwoCentz_HWE_Ret
The Zalman was pointed and is patented, the other is a heatpipe/heatsink design MSI, Asus and other manufacturer’s used these at one point for north and south bridges on boards, in this case a P45 northbridge and ICH10/R Southbridge
SharkFine
Glorious, thats what its called. Its a Zalman quiet or something to that extent. If you’re looking at a replacement, you could maybe get by with just replacing the fan.
I love those power and reset buttons, wish my current mobo had something like that.
But that IDE connector is giving me PTSD flashbacks.
H3LLGHa5T
eww
Excellent-Timing
Wow.. I think now a days they are called ‘nostalgic’ ☺️
Good old zalman coolers. What a time.
Relevant_Force_3470
Zalman referred to these as flowers, from memory
aura_enchanted
Wow a barrel cooler, that’s so ancient XD, those went out of fashion when I left high school
-TheHeavenlyDemon-
A Beast. That’s what it’s called.
ju2au
Zalman the company was caught up in a $3 billion dollars fraud by the parent company and almost went under. The company has restructured and trimmed its product lines but is no longer as visible as before. You can still buy their distinctive CPU coolers from Amazon:
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That’s a very colourful board! 😊
Round pin or extruded heatsinks. I used to have one on my Q6600 mounted on my MSI P35 board. Very similar colour scheme as well.
*Back in my day…*
Just Zalman
Can’t go wrong there
God I miss Zalman.
Orb cooler, sideways orb cooler, flower cooler.
Holy shit the amount of ram dims on the motherboard.
I haven’t seen one of these since 2015, they’re solid though.
Hey how much ram you got?
64gb
Thats in 2×32 or 4×16 right?
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2×32 or 4×16 right?
Edit: you guys hate simple jokes dont ye
It’s a patented type of cooler from Zalman 🙂
https://patents.google.com/patent/US7515417B2/en
Finger guillotines
those were the CNPS model family by Zalman. About 20 years old ~~and sadly not compatible to current sockets.~~
The newest model was from [2011 called CNPS12X](https://www.guru3d.com/review/zalman-cnps-12x-review/), ~~also not compatible to current sockets.~~
I’ve had the 9500 for a time. Not the best cooler for an FX8350 but I wasn’t doing much with that CPU.
old
That’s one of the Zalman CNPS series. They’re conceptually a tower cooler, but curved.
Now everyone’s boring.
The Zalman was pointed and is patented, the other is a heatpipe/heatsink design MSI, Asus and other manufacturer’s used these at one point for north and south bridges on boards, in this case a P45 northbridge and ICH10/R Southbridge
Glorious, thats what its called. Its a Zalman quiet or something to that extent. If you’re looking at a replacement, you could maybe get by with just replacing the fan.
I love those power and reset buttons, wish my current mobo had something like that.
But that IDE connector is giving me PTSD flashbacks.
eww
Wow.. I think now a days they are called ‘nostalgic’ ☺️
Good old zalman coolers. What a time.
Zalman referred to these as flowers, from memory
Wow a barrel cooler, that’s so ancient XD, those went out of fashion when I left high school
A Beast. That’s what it’s called.
Zalman the company was caught up in a $3 billion dollars fraud by the parent company and almost went under. The company has restructured and trimmed its product lines but is no longer as visible as before. You can still buy their distinctive CPU coolers from Amazon:
[https://www.amazon.com/Zalman-CNPS9900-MAX-Ultra-Flower-Cooler/dp/B0046Y79HS/](https://www.amazon.com/Zalman-CNPS9900-MAX-Ultra-Flower-Cooler/dp/B0046Y79HS/)
Awful. They’re called awful.
They’re called “history”
Zalman cnps-9500, those things weighed a ton and caused many bleeding fingers
stupid
zalman cps 9700 or the likes of it
That’s not a heatsink that’s a jet on a motherboard
Heatspins