De mannen van TweakTown hebben een review in elkaar geknutseld over de Thermaltake Blue Orb, een klein en sexy koelertje voor chipsets en videokaarten. Helemaal perfect is de koeler niet: de kabel erg kort is en daarnaast is het vervelend dat je waarschijnlijk bye bye tegen één van je PCI sloten moet zeggen. Ondanks deze imperfecties is de koeler zeker niet slecht: de benchmarks laten een paar mooie resultaten zien, en een qua kleur is deze koeler een perfecte match voor een 3D Prophet videokaart :
The blue orb is a chipset sized cooler, from the pictures we can see its almost identical to the CPU orbs made by Thermaltake only smaller. The blue orb is almost 1cm bigger in diameter than the traditional chipset coolers. The Blue orb connects using pushdown pins that align with the old pin holes that are on most motherboards that hold down the traditional green heatsink or the holes on most video cards like Geforce, TNT2U and many other heatsinks. The orb gets its power from a standard 3 pin fan header, unfortunately this cooler only has a very short cable and unless you have a fan header real close to the AGP slot if you want to use it for AGP cards you will be out of luck and will have to buy and extension cable. The fan itself is a high performance ball bearing fan maxing out at around 4500RPM its pretty quiet compared to other chipset coolers. As we can see from the pictures we can see just how big this chipset cooler is. Due to its size if you use it on your video card you will loose the use of the PCI slot under the AGP card, this is not normally a problem to most people as PCI 1 shares the same IRQ as the AGP slot and not many people want devices sharing the same IRQ as their video cards.
[...] Thermaltake have once again made another winner, design is good, size is just about right and performance is above average, with only a few niggles which can be sorted out in later revisions this cooler get a 8 out of 10.
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