Zalman's TNN300 Silent Case

[Steve]

Tomorrow I will be at CTS. The guys at Quiet PC forwarded me some pictures of what I have to look forward to at their booth.

We first saw the TNN300 silent case from Zalman at CeBIT. Unfortunately I wasn't there to witness it, so I look forward to this opportunity.



Aesthetically, the TNN300 looks much nicer than it's bigger TNN500A brother. Of course, while it looks good, it is the cooling solution that makes it unique.



Look ma, no fans! Everything is cooled using either convection, or heatpipes. Even the PSU is fanless.

To add to the sweet sound of silence is the sight of what you can actually run in this case. Despite its complete lack of fans, an Athlon 64 3500+ (Winchester) will run happily according to the spec sheet, as will a 2.8C P4 Northwood (no mention of Prescott, oddly). The VGA cooling solution should work with most cards posessing GPU heatsink mounting holes.

So, you can run a pretty slick system in a completely silent case, the only two moving parts being the hard drive and optical drive, which, if you choose carefully, can be near silent too.

[Gordy]

Couple more shots on zalmans site

http://www.zalmanusa.com/mboard/mboa...&order_da=desc

http://www.zalmanusa.com/mboard/mboa...&order_da=desc

[Steve]

Had a look at one "in the flesh" today and I was very impressed. It is, in my opinion, a much better case in the way of looks and size when compared to its big brother the TNN500. It is much more suited to use as an HTPC, which is handy given this is the market it is aimed at. It also comes with some nifty HTPC software.

Expect a HEXUS writeup soon.

[Gordy]

Kewl nice one

Any ideas on price yet?

[Steve]

I was told half the price of the TNN500 - though I cannot recall how much that costs.

[Gordy]

800-900 quid from memory