Chrome Orbs - $11

[Plester]

Onvia sells chrome orbs branded as Antec called the 'Twister CPU Cool' for $11.02 - free shipping and no tax.

 

[Bagger]

Too bad those $5 off $10 coupons aren't available anymore huh?

 

[ppaik]

Can you link it please?
And anyone know if any coupon works?

 

[daddyo]

Link

good deal!

 

[Mday]

link to antec's site with a picture of the twister ;-)

 

[HONKER24]

Would this be good for overclocking a Duron 800 to 1ghz?

 

[takhyon]

It's a very good fan. In the reviews I read it performed close to if not better than the GlobalWins and Alphas (no flames please).

Two drawbacks:
1. It is a bit on the louder side. It's the fan itself, but the air coming out of those twisted fins, give it a slight whistling sound.
2. The Original Golden Orb, which had the twist type clip, needed a hereculean effort to fix. The Socket A version doesn't have this horrible clip. But if you're using the KT7, you will have to file it a bit, to make it fit.

I'm still using the orbs to overclock Celeron 366's to 550. So, I guess it should work for the Duron too.

 

[eugovector]

Are we sure these are made by ThermalTake, or at least as good of quality. I know that there have been a lot of knock-offs, some of them performing pretty poorly. Granted Antec is a good name, but stranger things have happened.

 

[fxsts]

Antec OEMs coolers from pretty reputable manufacturers.

If you see the link posted by Mday, you can tell that their PIII sloct cooler is Vantec's. I think their blue coolers are from Cooler Master if I am not mistaken. Therefore, I would not doubt that their orb is not a POS generic.

It is a very good deal as you can save on around $4 shipping which all the smaller guys dealing with coolers charge.

 

[Howard]

takhyon (the physics one is spelled 'tachyon' JSYK)

You only have to file the Super Orb in order to have it fit on the KT7.

 

[Thanh]

The fans on these coolers are only 17cfm while the thermaltake are 22cfm... The Antec twist doesn't seem like it would be too good for overclocking.

The Taisol t-bird cooler looks pretty good. It's only 11.30 + 7.00 shipping. Unless people want to do another GROUP ORDER? kinda a hassel for the organizer though.