Zalman TNN Cases Discontinued?

For what reason are you after one?

There noise free series cases can barely cope (if at all) with a high end system nowadays.
 
Hmmm I guess it should work in theory. But you'd still have other issues to face like the heat from the motherboard and the graphics card.
Those cases were designed when the computer as a whole gave off much less heat, not just the cpus.
 
You would be much better to invest in a large tower case and water cool it. It would work out a similar price (if not slightly cheaper) with high end water cooling which would cater for the latest components. You could also run it virtually silent!
 
I used to do system builds in the 500 series about 2 years ago using p4 s478s and fairly low end graphics cards (geforce 5600s), I don't think a high end system these days would be any good in them, they're a pain to put together too and expensive but the materials used are very good and it's very heavy
 
I like the look of it, and should be able to cope with the heat output of the system..., nice size and nice design..., and truly silent, well if I cant get a Smartdrive 2002C to fit in it...
 
philstanbridge said:
You would be much better to invest in a large tower case and water cool it. It would work out a similar price (if not slightly cheaper) with high end water cooling which would cater for the latest components. You could also run it virtually silent!
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I have checked the specs and them pumps are still loud around 23DB..., and the hassle of testing it for leaks is jsut to much bother for me.., i'm not really looking ot build a super high end machine so water cooling is out of the question..., £200 for the kit, £75 for PSU, £80 fpr the case, nearly adds up to the same price as the TTN-300...
 
meansizzler said:
I have checked the specs and them pumps are still loud around 23DB..., and the hassle of testing it for leaks is jsut to much bother for me.., i'm not really looking ot build a super high end machine so water cooling is out of the question..., £200 for the kit, £75 for PSU, £80 fpr the case, nearly adds up to the same price as the TTN-300...
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Well let's face facts - the majority of water cooling systems are far from silent, but they can be made so, with a little forethought and planning - but do you really need absolute silence? Take for example my system here - it's a watercooled E6600 @ 3ghz, a 8800 GTX running at 50 degrees idle and it's very very quiet indeed. I use an ultra quiet psu, which is running well under spec, so it's even quieter and I am running a triple rad with 3 x 120mm silent fans at 40%. It's producing a whisper. You can't even hear the pump its so quiet and i have to check the controller at times just to make sure it's on!!

I've done some looking around and you can actually pick up a pre-installed top end water cooled case for around the £500 inc so you can definitely get cheaper ones. Even the top end works out cheaper than the Zalman. It's food for thought.
 
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If you want to see your equipment burn up fine, otherwise listen to Phil. The TNN are pap for todays stuff.
 
philstanbridge said:
Well let's face facts - the majority of water cooling systems are far from silent, but they can be made so, with a little forethought and planning - but do you really need absolute silence? Take for example my system here - it's a watercooled E6600 @ 3ghz, a 8800 GTX running at 50 degrees idle and it's very very quiet indeed. I use an ultra quiet psu, which is running well under spec, so it's even quieter and I am running a triple rad with 3 x 120mm silent fans at 40%. It's producing a whisper. You can't even hear the pump its so quiet and i have to check the controller at times just to make sure it's on!!
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Care to note down the parts oyu use, eg.. pump/waterblocks/radiators/fans, specced up a watercooling rig a year back, but never got it...
 
The fact that Phil knows cases inside out and does it for a living, I'd take his advise "huh" :/

Don't be such a fool. You are blindly ignoring advice given.
 
Robert said:
The fact that Phil knows cases inside out and does it for a living, I'd take his advise "huh" :/

Don't be such a fool. You are blindly ignoring advice given.
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N neod to be cocky?.., his business is no concern of mine.., all I asked was a simple question, but guess I will send Gibbo an email
 
Get something like the TJ-09 or Lian Li A10 (something of very high quality) along with a couple of nexus fans and HD enclosures.

With this on the cpu: http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=HS-006-SY and this: http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=HS-035-TR on the graphics you would probably only need 2 of the 120mm Nexus fans running at 7v to keep the temps down to reasonable levels.

That would be silent, a nexus @ 7v makes <18db of noise and theres practically zero motor noise.
You could get the Corsair PSUs, they are very quiet or an Antec phantom which runs fanless 90% of the time. The other option, as has been said would be water cooling. Alphacool do some fairly nice passive systems when matched with the right pump would be nearly silent

Phantom PSU: http://www.antec.com/us/productDetails.php?ProdID=24500

meansizzler said:
Here is an old case spec of mine that has yet to see the light of day...

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showpost.php?p=8213895&postcount=1

what do you think?..
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Thats fairly decent but the VF900 isn't silent, I plan on replacing mine with my freezer 7 pro (:D) and running it passively when I buy an Infinity for my CPU.

The TNN cases are ok but with anything coming close to a high end graphics card it would soon overheat and they are expensive.

Edit: Are you the one with the Coolermaster Ammo...? If so then any advice will be ignored :o :p
 
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