Vipers Lair has posted a review on the Thermaltake Blue Orb

After less than one year of use on my motherboard the fan on the Northbridge chip of my A7V133A started to make noises signaling that it wasn’t going to live much longer. After my friend’s having gone out on him as well (coincidence?) I decided I didn’t want to try to play the warranty game and started looking for a replacement. After asking around from my friends and my local computer store I found out that my chipset fan takes the same heatsink/fan (HSF) as Nvidia uses for their graphics cards.

I would provide stats on how well the new chipset cooler works as compared to the old one but I don’t think it would be a good test as the old one was on it’s last legs and the fan was getting bound up (less than one year old, nice QA Asus) and I wouldn’t have gotten a fair representation of the OEM fan.

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