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Thermaltake Blue Orb II I wasn't particularly surprised while testing the Thermaltake Blue Orb II. I was expecting big from this cooler, and that's just what it delivered. I put the Blue Orb to the test against the Akasa Evo 120 and the Stock Intel Cooler. The Akasa Evo 120 was tested first. Afterwards, that was removed and the Stock Intel Cooler was installed and tested. The Blue Orb II was the last cooler tested. The ambient room temperature for these tests was 22-23C and never varied more than 1C. To test the different options, the system was brought up, and allowed to idle for 10 minutes. We brought the system under full load for 20 minute intervals using Stanford's Folding@Home client. The load temperature was taken at the end of these intervals, and the system was allowed to idle for another 10 minutes. The idle temperatures were taken at the end of that period. This was done five times. The high and low scores were discarded and the average was taken of the remaining three. Test Bed
The Blue Orb II actually performed a bit better than what I was
expecting. The Akasa Evo ran around 6C less than the Stock cooler, and
the Blue Orb was another 4C under that at load. That's over 10 degrees
cooler than the Stock cooler. The average Load Temperature was only 51C,
where the CPU Idled at 37C.
Another determining factor for me was the noise level.
This is a very quiet cooler. The only hum that I hear coming from my
case is from the PSU fan.
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