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Thermaltake Super
Orb
The Golden and Chrome Orbs may just
be snazzy-looking coolers with ordinary performance, but Thermaltake saw
no reason not to, ah, expand on the idea. The Super Orb is a double-height
Chrome Orb with two fans inside it.
It's got twin leads that each terminate
in a three-wire plug, but only one of the fans has the third tachometer
lead coming out of it. If you've only got one motherboard three-pin header
spare, no problem; it comes with a three-pin-to-PSU-plug adapter for the
second fan.
At $RM85.00 delivered, the Super
Orb's not preposterously expensive. It's not hard to clip on, either; it's
got a simple, sensible one-part clip like the one on the Chrome Orb.
The Super Orb's biggest problem
is that it doesn't fit on all motherboards. Some computers just can't take
a CPU cooler that tall; rather more computers have components (usually filter
capacitors) close enough to the CPU socket that a Super Orb will foul them.
And unfortunately, those long thin
fins just don't seem to give the top fan a great deal to do. The Super Orb
outperformed the Golden and Chrome Orbs, but at 0.71°C/W, it didn't rock
my world. It certainly looks spiffy, though.
