Zalman TNN 300 fanless case

http://www.bit-tech.net/modding/2005/11/10/ZalmanTNN300_fanless/1.html

 

five hundred feckin quid? I can nearly buy the best processor in the world for that! Nice case, although it remindes me of a rotable heater

Any chance of some more pictures of the exterior?

 

Dunno, I have a noiseless system in a $50 case. No moving parts at all (hd stops after 3 minutes) though the PSU does have a very slight electrical hum to it (one of the external bricks). Powerful? No, it's an EPIA MII-10000 (1.0ghz) with a $5 Zalman chipset heatsink on the processor. Ultra quiet? You betcha. Strong enough to display some video anyways, which is all I'd need. Considering the whole system was under $300 as I salvaged the laptop hard drive, ram, and DVD, I'd put it as a pretty good value compared to the zalman.

Still, no beating a "proper" system for actually doing stuff. It's enough to serve out video and type in Word, but much beyond that is painful. Though that might be in part from the XP/256MB RAM combo.

 

Nice....BUT....

Nice Piece of eqipment and Iam glad to see that some of us agree that its alot of money for it and that they would rather spend it on a cpu instead of a case.

But on the other hand some of us don't like tweaking our systems to reach a optimum level and their are people out their who no nothing about pc and they are most properly ones who will pay that with a smile....

And that ain't me.

So I'll stick to coolermaster case .....for now.

 

It's beautiful! Too bad about the limited supported hardware list.

 

Those photos REALLY dont do this case justice. ITS JUST BEAUTIFUL in the flesh.

Its BIG & HEAVY and just ooozes the £500 price tag (well imho MORE than £500).

I could never personally justify spending that much on a case but its still on my wish list

 

Any chance of some high res shots?

 

You really think someone having no clue of computers will spend like 500 £ on a case if they can get a 'high-end system' (rofl @...) for the same price? Not really. They'd go for the cheap rig as they wouldn't care about noise or even didn't know at all there IS a case like the Zalman's out there.

 

to the people who say its exepensive and so on, you have to remember this is to make a high end system silent not a mini itx system. i would like to see you play f.e.a.r on an m10000.

 

I would like to see you to play FEAR on a 6600 and a processor that cannot use more that 75w.

The reality is, it's expensive for what it can do. It's not expensive compared to the beblu HTPC, which for the same price is only an epia board...but at the very least, you don't have to assemble the beblu. Due to its hardware constraints, the best it can be is a midrange HTPC, but a silent one. And is that worth over 500 quid to have a case that can't sit under your TV?

Frankly, I could go buy a nice silverstone HTPC case, fill it with decent hardware, and watercool it...and save an easy $100 in the process. And it'll sit right under my TV, looking cooler than any of the other things in my entertainment center.

 

I see bit-tech is working with quiet PC now too (posers)

 

I like the heat pipes, but water cooling is still a better option in my mind. What do you guys think?

 

I have 500 series at home... i'm pretty happy with it... I'm serisouly concidering this one too... I have been tryng to get a silant PC for about 4 years now, heh

 

Seriously?! You have the 500? That thing is a beast. How well does it work for you?

 

It works very well, EXCEPT, the HD noise issue. since the case has holes at the top and bottom to allow air flow, you can head the drives. I do have segates, not too loud drives, and they are the loudest things in the box now. the ideal situation would be to have a bunch of 5.25" internal drive bay so I coul put on HD silencers... I saw some from Quite PC and thinking of somehow retroffiting the case. A few of my issues with the doors and lots of holes in the case have been resolved with the new version of the 500, the 500AF.

I would recomend the case for anyone who is serious (or obsessed as I am) about computer noise.

 

Its the same with the SD11G5 i just reviewed, effiectively silent but the damn harddisk makes it 10x noisier. If you can get a 4200rpm lappy drive it would be impossible to tell it was on, but it would also be seriously slow.

 

Guys, my new 200GB Seagate is dead silent. Even when accessing. Maybe y'all just don't have the right hard drive for Silent Running

 

Think my whole computer cost £500 and thats silent, 1x5v 120mm fan with 2 stacked 120mm rads and a 7v pump coupled with a tagan psu makes it nice and whisper quiet .

That thing looks nice but its just way too over the top.


Morgan.

 

Agreed....same drive that's in the HTPC

 

I have only the raptor I use in testing. 10k rpm is the wrong end of the stick methinks.