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Thermaltake Blue Orb II CPU Heatsink w/ Blue LED (Pentium 4 LGA775, AMD 754/939/940/AM2) (CL-P0257)
07-03-2008
Very good
I''ve had this thing for a year and I still love it. I can''t say "took temps form ___ to ___", ''cause I didn''t even bother with any stock, but it is quite nice. I am running an AMD 64 X2 5600, which is 2 AMD cores, each running at 3.2GHz. Stressing my CPU to no end with P95 and Crysis keeps it below 53 degrees Celsius (room temp is about 75 degrees F, 24 degrees C). This tempo was using 32-bit Windows XP. I noticed a drop when I installed 64-bit Vista. As for noise, well, what noise? That temp I posted was when running the fan at 25% duty and it''s very quiet. Crank it up to 100% and it gets a little louder, but still pretty quiet. One note, get out a ruler and make some measurements, unless you''re really sure you have a lot of room. My RAM is about 6" away form my CPU and the fins just barely cleared the top of the closest memory module.
SilenX iXtrema Pro 40mm Copper Northbridge Chipset Heatsink (IXN-40C)
06-01-2008
So far, so good.
Makes some noise, but not much. I cranked its speed up to 100% and could not specifically hear it over my four 120mm case/CPU fans at 25%. I thought that was pretty impressive due to its small size and high rpm. Hard to modify if you have a tight fit. It got in the way of my GeForce 8800GT, so I had to grab a couple fins at a time and wiggle them back and forth until metal fatigue kicked in and they broke off. Every mm counts for me because my northbridge is so close to my video card, so I also had to get out a grinder to grind the stubbed fins off a little bit. I can''t say much about temps, yet. I have yet to find something that will monitor my northbridge temps. Overclocked my FSB to 250MHz and it passed my oh-so-scientific "too hot to touch" test. One last thing: installation. Kinda clumsy for pin installation. You may have an easier time than I did if you have skinny fingers. I got the first pin in easily, but had a hard time getting the second one in because there just wasn''t much space to get my finger in there. Maybe the hook-and-loop system is easier, but I don''t know since I never used that mounting system before.