CeBIT`2004: Expo Coverage - Spire
Zalman
Zalman, Korea, has developed cooling devices for whatever components inside the computer. The company also presented its own PC housing for fully passive cooling to the public assessment.
The housing weighs around 25 kg, has handles to carry it around, as well as wheels to transport it over the floor. The housing is equipped with lots of heat pipes which transfer heat from the processor, video card to the lateral walls which function as a big radiator.
The cost of such solution exceeds $1000.
Heat pipes are actively used in other company products: e.g., in the hard disk cooler ZM-2HC2
But since recent times, Zalman has felt too tight within the boundaries of PC housing and started developing external devices. For example, the company demonstrated a working prototype of the water cooling system.
The huge tower functions a radiator to cool liquid. Actually, the system was demonstrated at the previous Computex, so we haven't seen anything new. But other external devices proved more interesting - primarily, because they are not meant for cooling.
First, 6-channel head-phones:
They can hardly called a novelty, since they have been long enough at retail stores. But the amplifier for headphones.. is something new.
And to close the audio topic, Zalman presented an external sound card.
I wonder if Zalman is cool enough to produce video cards.
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