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Friday, September 5, 2008
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Thermaltake DuOrb CPU cooler dares to violate the general principles: its ideological prototype was a dual-head DuOrb cooler designed for graphics cards. But why not? Let's examine today's original solution and try to determine how justified this unusual concept of Thermaltake engineers is.
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Wednesday, August 20, 2008
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Installing the Thermaltake DuOrb heatpipe CPU cooler on a motherboard with an open layout should be very simple thanks to the well thought out mounting hardware that will hold the cooler in place and will keep it from sliding around. As seen in the review, there could be issues installing the DuOrb on some motherboards.
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Monday, August 4, 2008
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Anyone with a compact computer case will tell you that finding a good heatsink can be a daunting task. After tracking down the best heatsinks available for your budget, there's the question of heatsink heights to factor in. This is where the new Thermaltake DuOrb heatsink comes in. This heatsink features twin 80mm fans set side-by-side so cooling surface area isn't sacrificed for keeping the total heatsink height under 90mm. The DuOrb is novel in a couple of other aspects...
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Thursday, July 31, 2008
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The Thermaltake DuOrb CPU Cooler provides more than just CPU cooling. The dual fan design cools the entirety of the upper portion of the motherboard in addition to the CPU. The DuOrb includes double-sided radiant heatpipes disperse the heat through the extensive number of fins surround each fan. The mirror coated copper base provides even better heat dissipation between the contact surface and the CPU over other CPU coolers. Read on further for the full review.
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Tuesday, July 1, 2008
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This macho saying has many dubious applications, but it's quite at home in the world of CPU coolers. When cooling with air the more surface area you have, the more heat you can dissipate. So Thermaltake's latest DuOrb CPU cooler, which sports two fans and two heatsinks, should be at the top of the heap right? I guess that depends on what part of the heap you look at.
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Monday, June 16, 2008
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Over the past year I have looked at several high performance heatsinks from various manufacturers. The mould has stayed the same for nearly all of the coolers; build it tall and put large 120mm fans that push the air to the top or rear of the case and hope a case fan removes the air quickly. This is a very efficient way to cool a processor, but it leaves pockets of air around the motherboard. Thermaltake has responded to the complaints of the motherboard manufacturers in a big way; they've brought the Orb design back into the big leagues. This time it's as a twin fan that will not only cool your processor, but your memory, back side of your graphics card and motherboard as well.
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Thursday, June 12, 2008
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Basically, they took two cooler units and fused them together. Not only does it cool the processor, but also surrounding components like memory and chipsets. We know that Thermaltake makes some great coolers, but how does this new one stack up against units like the Ultra-120 and Scythe Zipang?
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Thursday, June 5, 2008
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My first orb was the Thermaltake Golden Orb way back when the Abit BP6 was the thing to have. Imagine having to shave a bit of a heatsink off to have it fit on your motherboard. Those were the days when you had to work hard for every ounce of performance. These days, you can squeeze so much out of new CPUs. Thermaltake has released a brand new orb, the DuOrb. It combines heatpipes and two huge orb coolers.
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Wednesday, May 21, 2008
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With GPU's raising the bar in terms of performance and heat output with every generation, aftermarket cooling is taking a larger role in today's high performance gaming systems. Today we take a look at Thermaltake's DuOrb CL-G0102. Does the DuOrb have the performance to match the good looks, or is this another case of Ms. Teen USA South Carolina? Read more to find out!
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Tuesday, April 15, 2008
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Thermaltake has now carried that same patented design over into the processor realm with its DuOrb CPU Cooler. Utilizing twin 80mm fans just as the VGA Cooler did, this time surrounded by six copper heatpipes rather than two and both an inner aluminum fin and outer copper fin configuration, the DuOrb CPU Cooler takes advantage of the wide wingspan of the DuOrb design to cool not only the processor but also the memory and surrounding socket area.
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Thursday, April 10, 2008
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The Thermaltake DuOrb is a sharp looking, well performing cooler that should fit in just about any mid tower and up, and some mini towers. At the $65 price point this could be considered a high-end air cooler. It's quiet, light weight, good looking, and a breeze to install. It kept up with the NV-120 really well, which says lot for the cooler...
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Monday, March 3, 2008
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Apparently, the masses were very happy with the Thermaltake DuOrb VGA Cooler, so much so, they decided to introduce the same idea for CPU cooling. It's been an awhile since Thermaltake introduced a high-end CPU Cooler. In the last few years, many manufacturers have entered the high-end CPU cooling market making competition now more intense than the past. Thermaltake has been hard at work to make their products more attractive and one of these efforts has appeared as the new DuOrb CPU Cooler.
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Monday, February 11, 2008
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The foot print of the DuOrb is much smaller and lighter than the stock heat sink which is always a nice result. And, the DuOrb does look better adding a bit more flash to a pricey graphics card with a somewhat boring stock cooler. Unfortunately, the included video memory sinks are plain gray, aluminum. This doesn't do the cooler justice and steals away a bit of its potential. Matching copper sinks would definitely compliment the DuOrb better and keep the look more balanced. The Thermaltake DuOrb VGA Cooler is otherwise a good performer and would make your 8800 series graphics cards stand out. Due to the limited designs of stock VGA coolers, it's nice to have a better option made from copper. If you need better cooling and your current card configuration just can't keep up, give the DuOrb some consideration.
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Thursday, January 31, 2008
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In this test, we are going to have a look on a product from Thermaltake. On Tweak.dk we have already had a look upon a number of Thermaltake products, and in this test, we have obtained their newest GPU cooler: Thermaltake Duorb. Thermaltake Dourb comes in a traditional red/black package. On the front, one finds information about the cooler, and a large window. On the back, all the information one might seek are to be found. There is also a small window so that the copper base is visible. Other than the cooler itself, the package includes fittings, RAM cooling profiles and a manual.
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Wednesday, December 19, 2007
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For several months, the only aftermarket VGA cooler that I could find for my 8800GTX was the Thermalright HR-03 Plus. I reviewed this cooler back in April, and while it did offer excellent performance, it sacrificed precious expansion slots to accomplish this. Fast-forward eight months to present day and we have another new VGA cooler to test with the 8800GTX, the Thermaltake DuOrb VGA Cooler.
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