alt Hacker NewsThose 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.
> 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.