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Thermaltake DuOrb VGA Cooler

Each side of the DuOrb is formed around a six millimeter heatpipe that provides an anchor for copper convection fins that radiate outwards.  These fans are 80mm jobs with the fins laid in so air blows down through them and onto the PCB of your VGA card.  This is a big plus to cooling as it gives a lot of air flow over warm VGA components.

The two sides are linked over a copper base with an aluminum billet cap sandwiching the twin heatpipes we mentioned.  The base is off centered a bit to allow for a variety of NVidia and ATi applications.

  

Thermaltake didn't skimp on the lap job here.  The base appears perfectly flush with a high gloss lapping.

  

A single Molex plug with connector pins for male and female ends powers the twin 80mm fans.

Also included with the Thermaltake DuOrb is mounting hardware and 13 aluminum heatsinks for BGA memory chips as well as four longer aluminum heatsinks for other hot spots that may need a little help.  With the air blowing down onto these sinks once installed, much higher memory clocks may be expected.

Installation

Our test card today is an Inno3D GeForce 7900 GS.  As you can see below, the first steps to installation are removing the stock cooler which in this case was a GPU cooler only.  Once clear, you attach the RAM sinks so that the fins radiate outwards.  The purpose of this is so that the air blowing down will be channeled away from the VGA card.

  


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