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Is a super orb enough for an Athlon XP?
Posted: Wed Nov 21, 2001 6:38 pm
by The Scud
...or should i get a Dragon orb?
Thanks
The Scud
Posted: Wed Nov 21, 2001 7:05 pm
by sethpa
Is an Orb your only choice? Cause there are much better heat sinks at not much higher prices. The Dragon is adequate, but has a failure prone fan and EXTREMELY heavy. Also, quite noisy, I understand.
Take a look here,
http://www.hardocp.com/reviews/cooling/roundup1101/
The XP versions are a bit cooler than the original Tbirds', but not all that much cooler. Globalwin makes some pretty decent coolers for not too much money, also Vantek has some good, reasonable stuff. I'm sure someone will come in with some excellent suggestions
good hunting,
sethpa
Posted: Wed Nov 21, 2001 7:07 pm
by Basterb
i don't know about an althlon xp but i can say i am running a althlon 1200 fsb 200 with a super orb and it runs fine at 48° C i had just switched form an althlon 900 and it was running about the same temperature
Posted: Wed Nov 21, 2001 7:22 pm
by Jim Z
I wouldn't use an orb for anything at all. For all of the noise they make they should cool a hell of a lot better.
true i have two dragon orbs and they make alot of noise
Posted: Thu Nov 22, 2001 10:39 am
by fearfox
not only that but after a few times of taking dragon orb of the cpu the clip kind of gets messed up it took me half and hour to put back the stupid dragon orb after trying to run a celeron on my vp6. its a good fan but just to much noise if you buy one buy some earplugs too.