TweakTown has posted a Thermaltake Mark 2 Chrome Orb Socket A Cooler review.
For some time now Thermaltake have been producing Golden Orb processor coolers for Slot 1 SECC (Pentium 2, AMD Athlon), Slot 1 SECC2 (Pentium 2, Pentium 3) and PGA (Celeron PPGA, Socket 7). When the new CPU socket for the AMD Athlon "Thunderbird" and Duron processors was released called Socket A, Thermaltake used their traditional PGA cooler and changed (or modified) the clip design for use with Socket A CPU´s. Unfortunately, this caused some problems as the cooler didn´t support the proper seating on the socket a CPU and all the stress was placed onto the CPU die which resulted in the AMD Thunderbird or Duron CPU die being damaged by this modified socket 370 Golden Orb cooler. Thermaltake have done a lot to resolve this problem, you are about to hear about what they have done first here at TweakTown...Read more
