These days you have more variety when buying a high performance air-cooler than you do pretty much anything else and most of them come from Thermaltake. Over the years Thermaltake has developed an incredibly extensive list of CPU cooling products. Though despite having one of the most crowded product line-ups they continue to squeeze out several new coolers each year. Already this year we have seen numerous new CPU coolers released wearing the Thermaltake badge.

However while Thermaltake has unleashed quite a number of new coolers this year we are actually going to take a look at one they released late last year. Already we have reviewed the VGA version of this cooler and the results were impressive, so impressive in fact that it was given our performance award. I am speaking of course about the Thermaltake DuOrb which comes in both VGA and CPU form cooling a wide range of ATI/Nvidia and AMD/Intel products.

Not only was the performance of the DuOrb VGA cooler very good it also looked extremely impressive and was also quite affordable with is just as important. Aesthetically the DuOrb CPU looks just as impressive though it does cost considerably more which is not all that surprising given that it is also significantly larger. The DuOrb VGA cooler weighed 324 grams while the DuOrb CPU is 85% heavier than this due to the CPU cooler being much larger.

Already we know that although the DuOrb CPU features a similar design to its VGA partner it is significantly larger and more expensive. The DuOrb VGA proved that it could take on the best of the best delivering exceptionally good performance with the only down side being that it was quite loud. Now it is time for the DuOrb CPU to prove that it has what it takes to belong in the ever expanding group of elite air-coolers...