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Originally Posted by stinger608

I actually purchased, and used, 3 of these coolers. They made two different versions, one with an aluminum base and one with the copper base. All three that I purchased were the copper base and as you mentioned are damn heavy. The positive point is that the Dragon orb 3 has the 3 pin retention bracket so there never was an issue, at least with me, of the cooler popping off. However, they are insanely loud unless they are run through a fan controller. I think, if I recall correctly, the fan runs full bore at over 5,000rpm's. Ear bleeding loud.




Only one time that I did. It was on an old Duran 750. Was installing the chip and cooler and heard a faint snap sound. Pulled the cooler off to find one edge of the chip broke. found little pieces laying by the socket. Cleaned it all out and figured I would give it a try, since I had just spent almost a hundred bucks on the chip. Got the system motherboard together and poof it fired right up! Used that damaged 750 Duran for almost 2 years.

Yes the dragon orb is painfully loud. I hated that thing, but for some reason I still have the one I got back from rma. lol. So that one has never been used.