Super Orb or Super Hedgehog

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Got an Athlon Thunderbird 1 ghz, been meaning to overclock it but I'm fairly certain my current cooler won't be able to handle it. So it's time for a bigger cooler! You can guess what my question is from the topic ... :

Super Orb, or Super Hedgehog?

(noise level is not an issue)

/w2k
 
I'd buy personally the hedgedog just because its price it's reasonable, its clip doesn't kill cores, it's made of copper and finally, is't design has been proven to be practically the same as the alpha's one!!!!

For me, the hedgedog is the best socket cooler up to date with no doubt, 'cos time ago with the 'copper-boom' a lot of manufacturers used to design and manufacture a lot of copper heatsinks, but shockingly they underperformed high-class coolers, starting to expand a bad mood about this ones. Moreover the price was a lot higher that newer models, so people rejected copper heatsinks.
Why was this happening???? The Design!!!!
If by any way any person would made the same cooler on both metals version, the higher conductivitie of the copper would made the cooper model to outperform the aluminium model. So the problem did reside on the design. Copper models were done with much older and less eficcient designs, and that was the real trouble!!!

The difference between the hedgedog and the "other" copper coolers is just the use of the best cooler design and clip(the alpha's one) with the only change of the made it's made.

HEDGEDOG ROCKSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!!!

That's just why you'll be able to see in all the benchmarks that hedgedog beats any other cooler!!!!!!

ENJOYYYYYYYYYYY!!!!!!!!!!!

PD: Be carefull with this cooler. Always remember it's made of copper and by the metal behaviour it's always much softer and easier to break, so be very carefull when you handle and install it!!!!
 
I forgot to tell you one thing....

If you don't mind about the noise and are able to bear a continuous 46Db buzz, choose in this case the delta(36cfm OHHH!!!!!), and remember to not use the heatsink power&monitorying conector of your mb because delta draws about 4w and you will probably blow your motherboard conector. Other more thing I recomend you it's to be very very careful with your delta because if anything hits the blades when spinning, the blade will break and, if the thing that hit the blade it's one of your fingers, be ready to see a deep cut and a lot of blood comming out, so I will definetely recomend you to buy a cheap fangrill for safety :-0!!!!!

Ummm... can't wait to see your oc'ed athlon running!!!!!!!!
 
I'd have to second his opinion of the hedgehog. Copper just looks cool too. Just becareful, because it is kinda soft. You don't want to bang it around or play with the fins too much.
 
HedgeHog is best, Super Orb is more than adequate.

Either choice should make your CPU happy.
 
"if anything hits the blades when spinning, the blade will break and, if the thing that hit the blade it's one of your fingers, be ready to see a deep cut and a lot of blood comming out"

Aaaahh yaaaaa that is one true statement 🙁

jeff
 
i have a standard golden orb and i am able to overclock my celeron 566 @ 850 ..ya everybody does that, it actually didnt work with a standard heatsink.. i could reach 950mhz (112mhz x 8.5) and it booted but no images ..my video card couldnt handle it but the processor did! im sure u could get awesome cooling with the super orb and of course 1 or 2 case fans ...i dont even have one and its rock stable.
 
FWIW... ASUS had annointed the SuperORB the recommended or preerred HSF for 1GHz and below, but I've read where plenty of folks are using them on tweaked systems that go over that level. I ordered one myself, and will be trying it out this week on my new 750 TBIRD.

tbird
 
If it will fit i would realy recomend the Alpha pep66 with the delta fan. I believe that the peps are the best cooler period for any socket cpu as long as there is room for it to fit. I have 1 on my sons cele 566 running at 114 fsb with pc66 ram quite a fast economical setup he has. that makes it a 969