Hey this is a RANT about the Blorb

phreenet · 02-18-2001, 04:39 PM

I dont know how people think that cooler is affective. But on my system, which has a VisionTek GF2 64, the video card cannot be cooled any better than the stock heatsink and that was not even overclocked. So upset with the Blue Orb I tossed it and didnt think twice. Now I needed a HSF, so I turned to my old AMD K6-2 500 system and ravaged the cooler off of it. Its a very simple, traditional style HSF with a very small fan on it, like 50mm I think. Its made by Antec and I bought it at CompUSA for 8$, you might have seen it before its has a light blue anodizing on it. I got some quick set Auto Epoxy at WalMart and off I went. I greesed up the GPU real good with Artic Silver then I applied four small blobs of Epoxy to the four recessed corners of the GPU so the Epoxy would not interfere with the cooling. Now my only problem is that I cannot get the video card to get hot. It just doesnt, not even playing Quake3 for days on end (that is thanks to Bawls :-)). Ohh yeah and I am feeling bold and I want flame like a Slashdot kiddie, I need to get someone to argue that the blue orb works great, I also have a distaste for Thermaltake products. I perfer Alpha when I'm not using watercooling

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Zero · 02-19-2001, 11:14 AM

You bastard! The Blorb let me overclock 200 mhz higher, gave 5000 more 3dmarks, and made my love life more satisfying!

Nah, I like it but it mostly gets by with its looks. I prefer the tennmax coolers, you don't lose a PCI slot. Or just some excessive socket cpu cooler strapped on there, thats cool too.

phreenet · 02-19-2001, 11:57 AM

LOL, I lost two PCI slots using a Socket 7 cooler

Kevin · 02-19-2001, 02:12 PM

I lost all my sockets except for one w/ my TNT2 Ultra cooling

. It wasn't really effective though... I think Hercules is making a modded blorb for their video cards. It won't take up a PCI slot. At least that's what I heard.

Joe · 02-19-2001, 04:48 PM

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Originally posted by Kevin:
I lost all my sockets except for one w/ my TNT2 Ultra cooling . It wasn't really effective though... I think Hercules is making a modded blorb for their video cards. It won't take up a PCI slot. At least that's what I heard.

yeh check out the pre-pic's of the GF3 that are floating around they got the lil blorb on em, they look nice

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phreenet · 02-19-2001, 04:53 PM

Hey joe where are some pre-pics of the GeForce 3 at? Hey and is the GF3 the same as the NV20?

02-18-2001, 04:39 PM	#1
phreenet Cooling Savant Join Date: Feb 2001 Location: Gloucester, Virginia Posts: 356	Hey this is a RANT about the Blorb I dont know how people think that cooler is affective. But on my system, which has a VisionTek GF2 64, the video card cannot be cooled any better than the stock heatsink and that was not even overclocked. So upset with the Blue Orb I tossed it and didnt think twice. Now I needed a HSF, so I turned to my old AMD K6-2 500 system and ravaged the cooler off of it. Its a very simple, traditional style HSF with a very small fan on it, like 50mm I think. Its made by Antec and I bought it at CompUSA for 8$, you might have seen it before its has a light blue anodizing on it. I got some quick set Auto Epoxy at WalMart and off I went. I greesed up the GPU real good with Artic Silver then I applied four small blobs of Epoxy to the four recessed corners of the GPU so the Epoxy would not interfere with the cooling. Now my only problem is that I cannot get the video card to get hot. It just doesnt, not even playing Quake3 for days on end (that is thanks to Bawls :-)). Ohh yeah and I am feeling bold and I want flame like a Slashdot kiddie, I need to get someone to argue that the blue orb works great, I also have a distaste for Thermaltake products. I perfer Alpha when I'm not using watercooling ------------------

02-19-2001, 11:14 AM	#2
Zero Cooling Neophyte Join Date: Jan 2001 Posts: 13	You bastard! The Blorb let me overclock 200 mhz higher, gave 5000 more 3dmarks, and made my love life more satisfying! Nah, I like it but it mostly gets by with its looks. I prefer the tennmax coolers, you don't lose a PCI slot. Or just some excessive socket cpu cooler strapped on there, thats cool too.

02-19-2001, 11:57 AM	#3
phreenet Cooling Savant Join Date: Feb 2001 Location: Gloucester, Virginia Posts: 356	LOL, I lost two PCI slots using a Socket 7 cooler

02-19-2001, 02:12 PM	#4
Kevin Slacking more than your weird uncle Join Date: Nov 2000 Location: San Diego, CA (UCSD) / Los Angeles, CA (home) Posts: 1,605	I lost all my sockets except for one w/ my TNT2 Ultra cooling . It wasn't really effective though... I think Hercules is making a modded blorb for their video cards. It won't take up a PCI slot. At least that's what I heard.

02-19-2001, 04:53 PM	#6
phreenet Cooling Savant Join Date: Feb 2001 Location: Gloucester, Virginia Posts: 356	Hey joe where are some pre-pics of the GeForce 3 at? Hey and is the GF3 the same as the NV20?

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