Zalman HD135 mini fault review
Hope this is ok, as it’s not really input I’m looking for but it was a pain to find any info about it when I planed to get one so now that I have a up & running HD135 if anyone needs to know anything just ask.
Few things to start
1) It’s actually 155mm high from the bottom of the feet to the top of the case, inside you get about 127mm from the motherboard to the top inside of the case.
2) The PSU under hang is so flush with the feet it’s easy to scratch the surface you place it one
3) You can’t fit a PSU longer then 140mm, 150mm do but tight.
4) Stock cooling is way too loud and does nothing really, its bearable at around 40% speed and any less you might as well get rid of it as it moves as much air as a snail
5) There no where you can mount a fan really bar the back just above the I/O ports 2 60mm can be placed here.
6) Drive vibrations are not as bad as stated on some reviews but I wouldn’t go putting any raptors in there.
7) VFD and remote are very good and easy to setup and map keys to.
For what I use it for its fine, as a media box this is not at all suited for games as it will get too hot under the hood.
My setup:
AMD X2 3800+ with NT06 + Noctua 120mm 800rpm
Asus M2V ATX board
512mb PC4200
MSI 7300GS 256mb silent HDMI (HDCP)
FloppyDTV-C + Matrix CAM
Pioneer 111D
1x 10GB 5400rpm
1x 400GB sata
2x 500GB sata esata box
Enermax 400 modular PSU
Windows XP MCE 2005
Cable management isn’t too bad with the modular psu and note this setup has only 1 fan bar the psu which is on the CPU. At idle it’s (idle for 60min) 47c and on load (prime95 24hours) 54c which isn’t great but does the job with just movie playback x264, blu-ray files & hd-dvd it’s about 50c. I tried it with 2 AcoustiFan 60mm which lowered the temp to about, 40c idle 50c on load.
this picture was taken just before PSU, DVB-C & VGA upgrade
Hope this is ok, as it’s not really input I’m looking for but it was a pain to find any info about it when I planed to get one so now that I have a up & running HD135 if anyone needs to know anything just ask.
Few things to start
1) It’s actually 155mm high from the bottom of the feet to the top of the case, inside you get about 127mm from the motherboard to the top inside of the case.
2) The PSU under hang is so flush with the feet it’s easy to scratch the surface you place it one
3) You can’t fit a PSU longer then 140mm, 150mm do but tight.
4) Stock cooling is way too loud and does nothing really, its bearable at around 40% speed and any less you might as well get rid of it as it moves as much air as a snail
5) There no where you can mount a fan really bar the back just above the I/O ports 2 60mm can be placed here.
6) Drive vibrations are not as bad as stated on some reviews but I wouldn’t go putting any raptors in there.
7) VFD and remote are very good and easy to setup and map keys to.
For what I use it for its fine, as a media box this is not at all suited for games as it will get too hot under the hood.
My setup:
AMD X2 3800+ with NT06 + Noctua 120mm 800rpm
Asus M2V ATX board
512mb PC4200
MSI 7300GS 256mb silent HDMI (HDCP)
FloppyDTV-C + Matrix CAM
Pioneer 111D
1x 10GB 5400rpm
1x 400GB sata
2x 500GB sata esata box
Enermax 400 modular PSU
Windows XP MCE 2005
Cable management isn’t too bad with the modular psu and note this setup has only 1 fan bar the psu which is on the CPU. At idle it’s (idle for 60min) 47c and on load (prime95 24hours) 54c which isn’t great but does the job with just movie playback x264, blu-ray files & hd-dvd it’s about 50c. I tried it with 2 AcoustiFan 60mm which lowered the temp to about, 40c idle 50c on load.
this picture was taken just before PSU, DVB-C & VGA upgrade
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