Date 2004-01-20
Provider: Zalman
Author: Niko Lupala
Editor: Amber Lupala
Zalman Zmwb2 waterblock
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The waterblock itself is fairly small and fits on most motherboards but with the mounting parts for a AMD Thunderbird/XP etc you will have to check that there is enough space around the socket and you need holes around it also.
Personally I could not find a motherboard with big enough space to mount the block so we ran the testing on a P4 instead. The bottom is amazing on this product. It's scratch and dent free and was well protected by foam at shipping.
The picture turned out great and really shows the great finish on the bottom part.
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Here we have the block mounted on a P4 board. Remember to tighten the screws very hard. I took a pair or plyers and basically maxed the screws so now it
should not move anywhere :)
Sicce Micra pump
Zalman Zmvb2 waterblock
Blackice radiator
3/8 tubing
92 mm Zalman fan on the radiator
Artic Silver Ceramique
Testing was done by using Sisoft Sandra 2004 burn in program. Room temperature was around 23 celsius.
Temperatures were taken with Gigabytes own temp/voltage program. 2.6 Ghz was ran with 1.6 V Vcore.
We can see here that we have VERY good temperatures compared to high end air cooling. I have been running at best with air cooling around 40 celsius.
This setup we ran was also completely quiet since we ran a small Sicce Micra (beware the old review) pump.
The WC system is nothing really amazing either so these temps are very very good!
Conclusion:
Well we have to conclude a review also I guess. We have seen that this is a high quality waterblock with a perfect copper finish on the bottom part.
The temperatures also showed that this block can perform very well. I ran small tubing and a small pump so the performance would probably be better with bigger tubing.
The great thing with the block is that it's compatible with INTEL Pentium 4 (Socket 478), AMD Athlon/Duron/Athlon XP (Socket 462) and AMD Athlon 64 (Socket 754).
I found one flaw though and it was the P4 mounting system since even after maxing out the screws the block moved a bit and that shows that it might have not maxed the cooling capability.
All in all we give this 4 out of 5 for a great waterblock with great features and great cooling potential.
Pros:
+ Cheap (~45$ in Sweden)
+ Fits three different sockets
+ Cools ver well
+ Can change fittings for your tubing
+ Easy to install
Cons:
- Needs a better mounting system so the block wont twist around.
RSS
We can see here that we have VERY good temperatures compared to high end air cooling. I have been running at best with air cooling around 40 celsius.
This setup we ran was also completely quiet since we ran a small 
