It's official...ORB shaped HSF's suck

[Andy22]

When I was at Best Buy buying my new PS I couldn't help but buy the cool looking Antec Twister HSF thinking it would be better thatn the I bought from MWaveGeneric one.

My cpu temp was running between 60-64c with the Antec so I went out and and got some heatsink compund from Radio Shack and tried the original one I bought from MWave and am now running 7 to 10 degrees cooler on the CPU temp. I lightly scraped off the pink pad that came with the generic one before I put on the compund. The case temp has been a steady 30-33 degrees. This is in a room above a Garage in a hot southern city in addition to being an Asus A7v133 mobo so I can live with those temps.

 

[Burn]

Thanks for your "official" opinion...

But it has been known that most of the "ORB's" do not offer sufficient cooling for those HOT Amd chips.

 

[kormaster]

they look cool....

 

[Andy22]

Uh, Burn lighten up a little, I was making a joke

Obviously everyone doesn't know this since there was a thread on it recently. Unfortunately I didn't read the thread before I made the purchase so I was posting this in hopes of catching someone else before they made the same mistake.

 

[nortexoid]

i thought those new dragonball Z or whatever gay name they attributed to their newest addition of orb cooling was really effective...they clip on to standard orbs or something?

talking about thermltake

 

[zephyrprime]

None of these orbs are as good as the orginal Hewlett Packard orb. (hp invented the orb). The hp orb looked like it would be expensive to manufacture though.

 

[Rhombuss]

Yeah, orb type HSFs are good for OEM computers, or even light overclocking. But the HP Panaflo Orb is a beast, I have one and it cools a little better than my PAL6035 (with copper insert), and a Mitsubishi 60mm fan. Since the Panaflo orb has a much smaller fan embedded into the heatsink, you can only marvel at the engineering put forth into developing it. And if you've ever held one before, you wouldn't believe that it was made with aluminum. I swear if I didn't know better, that it was a solid piece of milled stainless steel, but supposedly it's some special type of aluminum offshoot.

 

[smp]

Before I buy any new hardware or anything for my comp, I always do a search for that item in the forums, or ask opinions. There's a huge wealth of information here to keep people from making bad purchases if they would just read some older posts. I never heard of the HP orb though..