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I had those brass-looking cylindrical coolers[1] from Zalman, and the two of them next to each other was quite distinctive. Like this? https://upload.wikimedi

• magicalhippo 10mo ago
  Exactly like that, yes! Ran the Celerons overclocked, as one did, and supposedly those were superior in thermals vs noise. Not that I had any reference.
  • userbinator 10mo ago
    Those are actually Thermaltake Golden Orbs, although many companies made similar designs. As impressive as they look, and as effective as they were at the time, I believe even a modern stock Intel cooler would be more effective; CPUs of the time only had TDPs around 20-30W, in comparison to the 100W+ they are now at.
    • magicalhippo 10mo ago
      > Thermaltake Golden Orbs You are 100% correct, how could I forget? :( I think I got it mixed up because I bought a Zalman GPU cooler which had similar design for my GPU some years after. Thanks for the trip down memory lane.