My computer's radiator pump stopped working, so now I have this.

"Zipppy, Mazdurp builder, Probeski owner and former ricerboy" (zipppyart) 07/11/2014 at 16:47 • Filed to: None

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Finally back, after a day off Oppo. I feel like I missed so much.

It's a second hand Zalman 9000 9700, got it cheap ($20) at some low-level PC store. It's like I'm pissing off a swarm of bees in there.

Soloburrito > Zipppy, Mazdurp builder, Probeski owner and former ricerboy 07/11/2014 at 17:17

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Wow. I had a Zalman 9700 back in something like '07 I think. I was running a Core 2 Duo E6750 at 3.6Ghz or so. Good times. Back when Crysis was bringing PCs to their knees.

Zipppy, Mazdurp builder, Probeski owner and former ricerboy > Soloburrito 07/11/2014 at 17:29

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The store had a selection of old, used Zalman fans, the one I bought was in the best shape, the fins weren't damaged. the worker there didn't know how the fan clamped on, so I showed them on an old board. Since AMD's been using pretty much the same socket for years, all I had to do was to reinstall the factory cooler bracket, and it went on without a hitch. I miss the luxury of liquid cooling already.

Soloburrito > Zipppy, Mazdurp builder, Probeski owner and former ricerboy 07/11/2014 at 17:52

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I love/hate my water cooling rig. I'm moving it over to a case labs case and it just feels like a mountain of work. Going to be swapping out my reservoir and installing backplates on my GPUs this weekend. I hate down time!

FrankenBlaster > Soloburrito 07/11/2014 at 18:29

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Hah! I'm still running one of those on my desktop at home. I remember spending forever deciding between that zalman and some other arctic cooling one, and whether I was gonna get the ATI 4870 or the nVidia 280

Soloburrito > FrankenBlaster 07/11/2014 at 18:56

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Yup it was the zalman 9700 and slightly smaller 9500. Both were pretty pricey since they were 100% copper. There was the arctic cooling freezer pro that was one of the cheaper ones and decent, but nothing special. I had a 4850 512MB and upgraded to a 4870 1GB then a 4890 1GB when it came out. Got zalman gpu coolers for those since those cards were hot and loud.

Can't believe how long ago this was.

FrankenBlaster > Soloburrito 07/11/2014 at 20:00

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Hah that's the arctic cooling one I went with now that I think about it, the price point is what sold me on it. Thing's still going strong.

One of these days, when I manage not to blow all my money on my car one of these months, I'm going to build a PC again. I got a little sad after I spent $600 on a new v3 AccessPort and realized I could have bought a PC that blew my old $2k budget one out of the water.

Frank Grimes > Zipppy, Mazdurp builder, Probeski owner and former ricerboy 07/11/2014 at 22:17

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Zipppy, Mazdurp builder, Probeski owner and former ricerboy > Frank Grimes 07/11/2014 at 22:40

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Yum.