"When you're building a small form factor system or HTPC, you often face the major issue of keeping all your components cooled properly while remaining relatively quiet. Although the stock CPU cooler may fit perfectly in your case, it's not always the quietest or highest performing solution. When you start browsing upgrade coolers, you'll see that there are clearly hundreds on the market to choose from but most will leave you with one problem - they are probably too tall for your desktop-style HTPC/SFF case! Looking to provide a good performing and quiet cooler to fix this problem, Thermaltake has come to the rescue with the MeOrb."