are orbs as worthless as they look???

[fatshlink]

I look at an orb ad see bure worthlessness. it has almost no surface area. it sais that it can cool up to 1.333 gig AMD!! can someone explain this. and what about the blue orb. it also looks to have much worthlessness.

thanx

[Thelemac]

Yes they are. :)

The blorbs are pretty popular for chipset cooling because they're small and way better than anything OEM.

They can *cool* the fast processors...but not to the levels that we hope for. For a bit of stability, they're better that OEM hsfs, but not if you're going to make your processor run hotter.

[eobard]

No they aren't, they're much, much worse! ;)

[CrystalMethod]

Just for the hell of it I bought a gorb. decided to try it just for fun, because I just seem to play with heatsinks all the time. i really should write a review for the page, but I've modified all the heatsinks I've had, so it'd be kinda pointless at this point. The gorb is just a fancy way of getting 2°C lower temps than a regular everyday ordinary heatsink, and made absolutely not difference when OC'd. Best bet is to check out the the heatsink reviews on the site and decide from there which is best for you.
Take a look here. (http://www.overclockers.com/topiclist/index15.asp)

[Colin]

I think they look great. To bad the perform like poopoo!:D

[Crazy Jayhawk]

No, they're not completely useless.

If you want to save water, you can throw them in the toilet tank instead of a brick. :)

[JAWS]

I bought one just to cool my geforce 2 chipset, even that sucked.

[eobard]

You could use one to cool the reset button on your case, them things can get up to room temperature if your not careful!
;)

[Sonny]

Dragon Orb 3 Copper does a good job of cooling & it's better than a CAK38. All the other orbs are useless except for the Blue Orb which is actually pretty good for the chipset on your MoBo or GPU.

[i12bina3]

you are totally right they look cool but they do nothing

[-=UR=- Ranger]

The only orb I would buy again is the blorb, it does a good job in GPU cooling, but only after lapping :(

All other orbs suck. Ok the Dragon Orb cools quite well, but not as good as you might expect considering it´s size and weight.
That thing is HUGE :D I would be worried to bracke my mobo or the socket if I used it.

[el]

you can take teh fan out of a gorb adn put it in a borb to get better performance for north bridge cooling.

[AlanSr]

How much better cooling will you get out of the fan of a Gorb than a Borb?

when I put a Blorb on my GTS I got over 100mhz more out of the memory!!!

[Intraveinous]

Anyone seen the new Crystal orbs? Nickle plated copper. it's supposed to replace the blorbs and orage orbs for chipsets, video, etc. haven't seen a test yet as they're brand new, but they come with a much bigger fan than the blorbs, and nickle plated copper is better than anodized aluminum I'm sure.
oh wellz, all in all tho, the Orbs suck, unless you're talking about the original Articooler (I think that's what it was called) that was originally used for the HP RISC chips and had a big panaflo fan in it.
Peace
John

[chilledout]

all you need to do is find an hsf from an old amd k6 system take an hacksaw to it to make it fit your chipset then clean up a bit with some wet and dry, stick it on with some artic silver epoxy resin, and then sling a 40mm fan on it.
That will ***** over any thermaltake chipset cooler and be much cheaper.

then when noone is buying chiset coolers they will start making ones that cut the musterd.

if jobs worth doing do it your f#$!ing self

[lennytiger]

I had a Super ORB on my Athlon 1.2 and it was 56C at idle now its wired up as a paper shredder on my desk!:D :D :D

[asmodean]

Some data on my gf2mx (herc prophet 2 mx):

Original:

Heatsink: OEM
Thermal goop: OEM
Attachment: holes in PCB
Maximum stable core speed in 3DMark2001: 195MHz


Blorb:

Heatsink: Blue Orb
Thermal goop: Arctic Silver 2
Attachment: 4 dots of superglue on chip
Maximum stable core speed in 3DMark2001: 205MHz


So there.

The crystal orb is interesting... If I recall correctly, the fan on blorb pushes about 5cfm and the crorb fan pushes 12cfm. That alone will make a nice difference. The nickel plated copper also enhances the performanence somewhat.

I think it would give me about 5 more MHz out of the core, if I'd bother to rip off the blorb and get one of those corbs. But I'm too lazy and poor to do that...