Let's open her up and take a look at the internals!

Here, you see the Opterons side by side, each being cooled by a heat-pipe cooler with full copper fins.

The main heatsink on the the processor is actually rather flat to keep the whole setup low profile. To be able to cope with the heat-load from the CPUs, the main heatsink needs to transfer the heat away quickly and this is done via the copper heat-pipes, 3 from each main sink. The heat pipe from one processor bends to the left while the other to the right.

The pipes pass on the heat to a tower of neatly and tightly pack copper fins. The end result is you get 2 tower of copper fins next to each other. And to dissipate the heat from the fins, air flow pulled through them is used. And where does this hot air go?

Well, they exhaust out to the power supply and out from the power supply into your room naturally.

Here you see the tight plcaement of the Video Card to the copper tower.

Well one of the key ingredients that go into a successful SFF is the thermal mangement due to the challenge of spcial constraints. So we definitely want to look into this and see how well the ZMax d2 handles the heat.

This was done by monitoring temperatures taken on multiple thermal probes at multiple strategic locations. You can read about this in the later part of this article.