Tt Venus 12 v.s. Blue Orb

[pengwin]

which cooler is better?


Thermaltake Venus 12 or Blue Orb 2

 

[Ultraviolet]

Well i just bought the Blue Orb II, for a couple of reasons. It has a very low DB: 16 i think, its 120mm, and its blue I'll let you know how it works out when i get it.

 

[pengwin]

cool tell me what ur temps will be

thnaks

 

[bront]

I'd guess the Blue Orb II, but not sure. I like my Zalman 9500 though, and have heard good things about the Scythe Ninja and the TT Soniq Tower

 

[pengwin]

hmm

ok

ill look into the scythe, the sonic tower si to big for my liking

scythe is big too

i want something normal sized i may go for a zalman Copper 7000

 

[bront]

The Zalman 9500 looks bigger than it is, and works well. What case do you have?

BTW, what area of IL are you in?

 

[pengwin]

i have a generic case but im looking at building a PC and i wanted a good cooler


i live in souther illinois suburb or St Louis MO

 

[bront]

Ahh, that's a shame. The Tiger Direct store is up here, and you can occasionaly get good deals from them, though since Tax usually ends up to be more than shipping in many cases, I only get smaller parts from them.

I would highly recomend getting a new case then. The newer cases tend to have better aif flow and are fairly easy to use. This of course depends on what case you currently have (I have 2 cases that are Chieftech-esq (A TT Xazer II, and one generic one I got for $30 from the Tiger Store), and they do fairly well airflow wise). I highly recomend cases that use 120 MM fans. I tend to stick with Antec cases, since I think they do a good job, but there are a lot more good cases out there now than there used to be.

And as far as the size goes, the better cooling ones tend to be larger. The Blue Orb II is pretty big, though it's wide, not tall. I'd recomend Tall over Wide, as it will restrict your access to motherboard components less.