Thermaltake Golden Orb (Socket 370) - $3.49

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NobleX13

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An all-time classic is back! Brand new in box! Go go go! :D

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Holy shit, that thing was "the shit" back in the day. Even if it wasn't the best cooler on the market. It just looked cool at the time. :p
 
Watch out, they have special pricing!

Special Pricing
Buy 6 for $500.00 each
 
one of these with a 600 celeron that let you overclock all the way to 1Ghz. :) i felt cool when I did that and I knew that the current CPU at the time were barely beating 900mhz. hahha
 
I think I had a golden orb, but never used it. But I used several blue orbs to replace the HSF on a Creative GF2 GTS 32MB card and a north bridge.

Those... were the days! :(
 
Wow, never would have thought that any of these classics still existed BNIB.

Quite a walk down memory lane!
 
Oh my god!

I had an orb too back in the days!!!

I miss those days!! I had an Abit mobo and a bazooka for my little Altec speakers :)
 
Blast from the past.... Somebody should post this on an old 3dfx machine in the the 3dfx thread
 
Had one on a Pentium III 933 Mhz which I later swapped with someone for an 850 Mhz just to have fun OC'ing (0 headroom on the 933), on an Abit board which later bit the dust and I had to replace with an awful ECS that I found locally...

That was the first rig I built from the ground up too, though I had replaced or added half the parts on the previous Dell Pentium II I had. That P3 rig was a total fiasco tho, the 75GB Deathstar on it also died after about a year. I wasted a lot of money on high end parts that weren't a good value back then, 'course it wasn't really my money. :eek:
 
I had a 75gb deathstar too! Got the click of death!

Who remembers connecting dots on AMD athlons to unlock multipliers???

I also was such a 3dfx fan boy!!!! I had dreams of Voodoo cards!
 
This was the heatsink I used on the first computer I ever built! Intel Pentium III 600MHz FC-PGA on a FCPGA to Slot-1 adapters... memories.

Later it crushed that very same processors exposed core while twisting it on... woot!
 
Oh wow, I remember being so excited when I first got my Gorbs. Then I remember my world crashing down when I realized they wouldn't both fit on my Tiger 100. So I had one stock HSF on one slot and a Gorb on the other.


lol


I long for the time when that type of problem was the "worst thing that could happen"
 
WOW!

Had one of these on a Celly II 566, bumped my Abit's mobo bus speed to100MHz, and boom, the chip ran at 850MHz for years without a single other adjustment. 50% overclock with hardly any effort, by far the simplest, most effective OC of my life.

I've had many other chips since then of course, including a Q6600, i7 920, and my current 2500k. All overclocked well, but they required all sorts of finessing with voltage settings etc. to even sniff a 50% OC.

The pic of that orb brings back fond memories. ;)
 
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