Testing:
The cooler was tested on the following system:
• DFI LANParty nF4 SLI-DR
• AMD Athlon 64 3000+ Winchester
• 2 x 512 G Skill LE
• 2 x 6600GT video cards
• 1 x 36GB Western Digital Raptor
• 2 x 200GB Seagate's in RAID 1
In order to record idle temperatures, the machine was left sitting at the Windows desktop for at least 30 minutes with no programs running and while at stock speeds. For load temperatures, the CPU was overclocked to 2400MHz at 1.65Vcore and Prime95 was run for at least one hour. The temperatures were recorded using Motherboard Monitor 5. While testing, the ambient temperature was 23°C.
For a comparison I brought along two heavy hitters, both of which are 120mm heatsinks that also fall into the large heatsink family. The first to the chopping block is the
Raidmax Glacier and the other is the Thermalright XP-120. The chart below shows the recorded temperature in both idle and load situations. Although the Blue Orb II doesn't keep up with the other 120mm heatsinks, it does perform well.
