Overclockers Online heeft een vergelijking online gemieterd tussen ThermalTake's Super & Chrome Orb, twee populaire Socket A coolers. De Super Orb is het grote (en hoge) broertje van de Chrome Orb en is uitgerust met een extra fan. In de test werden beide exemplaren op een Duron 800 @ 1,05GHz geplaatst en de resultaten vergeleken met een standaard AMD heatsink/fan combo. Beide Orbs hadden gelukkig geen problemen met het stabiel houden van het systeem:
Basically, there aren't too many differences between the Chrome Orb and the Super Orb. One difference is that the height of this cooler towers over the Chrome Orb by a good 29mm, totaling a monstrous 74mm. Compared to the Chrome Orb, this extra surface area theoretically makes cooling a lot better. The height of the cooler may be an issue in some cases which have the power supply over the CPU socket (like some of the cheaper Enlight cases). The only solution here is to get yourself & your components a better housing environment.
[...] As you can see on the picture, the Super Orb is the absolute winner here. However, I was pretty amazed to see a Chrome Orb coming really close to the Super Orb's cooling performance. With both Orbs, my Duron 800 setup ran just fine at a rockstable 1.05Ghz (1.85v). This wasn't the case when I used the standard AMD heatsink. After about 1 hour of full load and a temperature of 55°C, the system suddenly rebooted and proved me it wasn't perfectly stable. I also played Quake 3 for about an hour with each of the Orbs with no crashes or errors at all. Although I was already sure both of the Orbs could handle the job, I decided to end my testing by doing some flawless 3DMark2k demo loops.
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Thanks bork voor de tip!