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Thermaltake Chrome Orb Cooler Review

Written: 9/22/2000
Written by:
TronŽ
Price: $12 - $15 
Supplied by: Thermaltake Taiwan

Thermaltake has certainly entrenched itself has a provider of  good value market heatsinks during the course of this year. For the budget minded, Thermaltake's Golden Orb, has become one of the most popular cooling solutions for socketed processors.

Unfortunately, Thermaltake ran into serious issues with AMD's new line of socketed Duron's and Athlons. These chips have their die flipped onto the top of the cpu package, similar to the Celeron2's and Pentium 3's. Different die thickness, and differences in sockets have caused problems in mounting the Golden Orb heatsinks to these new AMD cpu's, most notably resulting in people cracking CPU die's. OUCH!!

Back to the drawing board, Thermaltake has released a new revision of their popular Orb heatsink, dubbed the Chrome Orb. The differences are small, but significant.

Specs:

Thermaltake Chrome Orb  
Application  Socket 462/A 
Dimensions  69mm dia x 45mm tall  
Clip Type TCS09 Clip on Clip
Fan Size 43x25mm 3-Wire
Rated Voltage  12 volt  
Noise Level  29 dBA  
Air Volume 22 CFM  
Rated Fan Speed 5500 RPM  
Bearing System  BALL BEARING  
Interface Material   CHOMERICS T725  
Heat Sink Material Aluminum 6030  
Fan Safety     UL/CE/CSA  
Thermal Resistance Theta ja=0.81c/w  
Special Feature Square base plate, fully contact chip rubber feet. 

You can see from the included pictures, that the Chrome Orb, is  umm....Chrome! ;) This has been done on purpose to allow it's two different products to be differentiated from one another on sight. The base of the new Orb has been expanded to allow it to sit on the plastic stabilizing feet, that are found on Athlon/Duron processors, thereby reducing the likelihood of rocking the heatsink hard to one side when mounting, which could lead to cracking or breaking a corner.  

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