Tell Me your Experences with the Dragon Orb 3

[Guest]

I have a coolermaster fan right now that isnt doing a good job of cooling my non-OC'd CPU, and I just bought a Dragon Orb 3, ...Now i hear that it does a terrible job of cooling even tho the fan is so powerful.... Lemme know your experences with it, Minus the loud fan... i dont find that

 

[Guest]

I just bought a DragonOrb 3 as well... havent installed it yet, let a bastard friend borrow my Artic Silver and he used it all. I have done some EXTREME case mods for my XP1800+ and am running into a hot CPU that I need to get cooler. I won one of the Extreme Performance AMD MB/CPU combos and it comes with the Retail box - so I have the "AMD Retail" fan, which just looks like a crappy version of a coolmaster HSF. Normal load is 55c with case temp at a cool 30c. Quake3 demo generates a temp of 64c!!! I am worried that my shiny new CPU will cook my breakfast for me. I am VERY curious as to why this fan "sucks" and any benchmarks if possible.

 

[Cyprus]

get a good heatsink.
ohh yea case fans, case fans, and more case cans.
if you dont have good air flow in your case then your heatsink will only do so much.


<font color=blue><b> cyprus </b></font color=blue>

"Never mistake motion for action. "
- Ernest Hemingway

 

[Guest]

So I got more artic silver and installed the DragonOrb 3 I just bought and WOW! It cooled my CPU by over 15 Degrees C!! I have case fans - total 7 fans in all... and it was still hot. I have a warm 'room temperature' and that has something to do with it... but this HSF works great! Don’t know what everyone else is complaining about! - So Amy, my recommendation is use it!

BTW - if anyone is curious about the EXTREME case mods I have done, I'll have more about it on my web page soon AND at http://www.bluesmoke.net/viewGallery.php?id=case (great MOD site) very soon. A hint: XP 1800+ and a GeForce2 in an original IBM PC XT case!