Is a super orb enough for an Athlon XP?

The Scud · Post by **The Scud** » Wed Nov 21, 2001 6:38 pm

...or should i get a Dragon orb?

Thanks

The Scud

sethpa · Post by **sethpa** » Wed Nov 21, 2001 7:05 pm

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

Basterb · Post by **Basterb** » Wed Nov 21, 2001 7:07 pm

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

Jim Z · Post by **Jim Z** » Wed Nov 21, 2001 7:22 pm

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.

fearfox · Post by **fearfox** » Thu Nov 22, 2001 10:39 am

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.

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Is a super orb enough for an Athlon XP?

Is a super orb enough for an Athlon XP?

true i have two dragon orbs and they make alot of noise