ThermalTake
Golden Orb cooler review
Posted by Adam
Klein on March 06, 2000 - Page 3/3
Manufacturer:
Thermaltake
Product provided by: TCWO
Conclusion
The
Thermaltake Aircooler, aka The Golden Orb, performed as
expected. It did do a better job at heat dissipation than
the Intel retail unit. The efficient design of the cooler
allowed me to access all of my DIMM slots. Also, I did not
notice any loud noise coming from the fan. With some coolers
I have used in the past, you would think the computer was
warming up to take off with all the sound it made. This is
not the case of the Golden Orb. It does emit some sound, but
not very much to bother you.
If
you are interested in getting the Orb Cooler be sure to
check it out at TCWO,
they were kind enough to let me have one to test out and I
thank them very much for that.
The
Golden Orb is a very sleek cooler when it comes to looks as
well, hence the name. The cooler obviously isn’t all just
looks though. I am very happy on how it performed with my
Coppermine, even though my CPU would have operated at 700MHz
just fine with the retail unit.
At
700MHz, running at a lower temperature does increase the
life of the CPU, but knowing me, I’ll probably get a new
CPU in a couple months anyways. If you plan to use a Celeron
CPU, you would benefit from using this cooler much more than
I did with the Coppermine.
3D
Spotlight review score:
9/10
Manufacturer:
Thermaltake
Product provided by: TCWO
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