Thermaltake DuOrb CPU Cooler

Thermaltake DuOrb CPU Cooler
[Frostytech.com] Thermaltake certainly made this unit pretty and we are not arguing that it isn’t, but when beauty causes it to be less effective as a working cooler that is when things begin to cross a thin red line. A cooler doesn’t have to be ugly but when the chips are down, the only thing that really matters is its ability to cool your CPU. In its present iteration the DuOrb is a very good dual core cooler, and one could go as far as to say that it performs adequately when it comes to cooling stock speed quads. However, when the thermal loads start to rise this cooler quickly becomes ineffective.

Noctua NH-C12P cooler
[Frostytech.com] Hardwareoverclock Austria has posted another CPU cooler review. Last week they has tested the new Noctua NH-C12P cooler, the first “Downblower” from the Austrian manufacturer. This cooler was made for all silent systems with a lot of passive cooling components on board like the X38 and X48 has.

Noctua NH-C12P CPU Cooler
[Frostytech.com] “In the past when a new Noctua CPU cooler arrived on my doorstep, it was pretty much a given that I would have a new performance leader for air-cooled CPU heatsinks. Times are starting to change and I am beginning to have my doubts after the arrival of the Sunbeamtech Core-Contact Freezer and ZEROtherm ZEN FZ120. It is difficult to imagine anyone making a cooler than can rival the performance numbers achieved by these two products. Given the history I have with Noctua products, I still have confidence in the products and if anyone is going to dethrone the CCF and ZEN FZ120, Noctua will be the one to do it.”

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