Kyle van HardOCP heeft een review geschreven over de Copper Orb. Deze Orb wordt _niet_ geproduceerd door Thermaltake, en is gewoon een imitatie. Deze koeler beloofd het beste van twee werelden te combineren: de prijs van de Golden Orb's en de performance van de Alpha's (dmv. een koperen onderkant). Dit blijkt een jammerlijke mislukking te zijn: volgens Kyle is dit het type koeler wat je zelfs gratis niet wilt hebben: de kans is groot dat je, je CPU beschadigd en daarnaast presteert hij ook nog voor geen meter :
What do you say? The Copper Orb pretty much sucked. Is it meant to be used only on CPUs that produce much less heat than a screaming TBird? Dunno. Is the clamp meant only to be used CPUs with a support or spacer of some kind? Dunno. It about rendered a $500 CPU useless and then did NOT cool it worth a damn.
I am usually pretty open minded about negative results and look for explanations in places where WE could have gone wrong in our testing. We always give the benefit of the doubt. In this case, the Copper Orb shows to be pretty much trash for any [H]ard|OCPer or performance buff out there. I have my doubts whether or not it would even make a good doorstop, but we will find out soon.
I think it is nothing more than a poser HSF trying to rip off the good press surrounding the Golden Orb and the Alpha line of coolers. If you even think about getting one of these at this point you might as well go ahead, because if you don't heed this warning, you will most likely do something stoopid enough to tear up your box anyway!Now the retailer that we got it from reports that it performs better than the Golden Orb and equal to an Alpha, but we did not get even close to the same results. Did we simply get a bad unit? I dunno that either, but you would think they would pick out a "good one" to send to us.
Is it cheap? Yes it is and rightly so. But even if you could buy this thing for $1.00 and it cooled much better than the competition, the damage factor that it might inflict on your CPU scares the hell out of me. From my short experience, stay FAR FAR AWAY from the Copper Orb.
Links de Golden Orb, rechts het prul:
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