Zalman ZM850-HP Power Supply Review

Posted on 2008-02-04 13:07:09 by Thomas De Maesschalck

Voiding the warranty on the PSU, I took off the top to get a look at the inside and the "Dual Heatpipe Cooling" design and all the other internals. The inside is nicely laid out with the output wiring bundled off to one side and two heatsinks running from front to back like most power supplies. However, unlike any other PSU I've seen, this unit boasts two copper heat pipes that run from the standard heatsinks to a pair of finned heatsinks right in front of the exhaust venting at the back of the unit. This design allows the heat disapating from the main heatsinks to travel along the copper piping, and out to the fins where the exhausting air from the fan will blow the heat out of the box thus keeping more heat away from the electrical parts in the power supply.



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