Design and Functionality

Thermaltake DuOrb boasts exclusive original design. I am absolutely certain that no one can pass by it without checking it out. Take a look yourselves:

Very beautiful, isn’t it? The cooler measures 202 x 106 x 86mm and weighs 598g. The skeleton that holds this entire structure is made of six copper heatpipes (6mm in diameter) that originate from the copper plate in the cooler base:

The heatpipes are split into two groups: three in each. Ach of the three heatpipes within a group holds its own heatsink array. Moreover, the arrays are distributed between the heatpipes in a very smart way. Two heatpipes coming out of the center of the cooler base that bears the most thermal workload pierce the outer heatsink that consists only of thin copper plates:

The next pair of heatpipes (if we move from the center of the base to its sides) goes along the smaller interior diameter, where the heatsink array consists of aluminum plates. And the last two heatpipes coming out of the sides of the base hold only small aluminum heatsink segments. Taking into account that this cooler is relatively light-weight and the heat dissipating surface of its heatsinks is not that big, it would make sense to make all the heatsinks from solid copper.

The whole thing is cooled with two 80-mm fans at the top. The fans are installed on an aluminum frame:

The fans rotate with a constant speed of about 2,000RPM creating 37.67CFM airflow and generating 24dBA of noise. The frictionless bearings in the fans are promised to deliver 50,000 hours of failure0free operation. Besides, one of the fans has red LED highlighting, while another one glows blue. We will provide the photo later in this review.