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Thermaltake Mini Copper Orb
It looks pretty much like the Chrome
Orb, but it's much heavier. The "Mini" in the name, though, indicates that
this cooler has the slightly narrower design of the Mini Super Orb. It ought
to be an easy fit on most motherboards, and it's got the same excellent
clip as the other current non-twist-lock Orbs.
The
extra weight's because of the big copper slug built into this cooler. The
bottom of it's this heat-spreader disk...
...and, if you unscrew the fan assembly,
you can see the top of the slug, which is covered with little square pegs
for direct heat dissipation.
At $RM90.00 delivered, it's
cheap for a cooler with copper in it. Unfortunately, it's not much of a
performer. It turned in a 0.72°C/W result, in line with the Super Orb.
Apparently, there's a version of
this cooler coming with a higher power fan in it, which might make it a
more impressive product. To see how much room for improvement there was,
I removed the fan assembly and attached to the top of the Copper Orb, by
unscientific means, the same high power Y.S. Tech fan that turned the ThermoEngine
into a world-class cooler. Whatever the new Thermaltake fan does, it'll
be less than this one.
With the monster fan, the Mini Copper
Orb managed a sterling 0.58°C/W score. This is hardly an elegant modification,
though; there's no simple way to mount a normal fan to any kind of Orb.
And the faster Thermaltake fan certainly won't have the power of the Y.S.
Tech one.
But if the upgraded version of the
Mini Copper Orb manages, say, 0.65°C/W, then it'll be a great choice for
the money.
