Blue orbs are made horribly...

[Joony]

i bought one for my friend and i stuck it on and look between the geforce 2 GPU and the blorb, there was this big gap! i dont want to sand it down....waht a waste of my money...

 

[aznmoshboy]

Are you sure they are made as horribly as you think? Putting a blorb on a GTS GPU has no problem it cools it efficiently...

 

[Joony]

the bottom is not flat!!! its like wobly

 

[drewski]

they are definitely inconsistent. I think it's cause they are two-piece jobs with the base/fan holder vs the fins. mine definitely was concave. add that to the fact that the GeForce 256 is concave as well and you've got quite the gap.

I spread a decent layer of ASII on the chip (knowing it was concave) and put on the BLORB. I like to get a nice suction between the HSF & chip, but couldn't do it. Removed the orb and looked at the base. A nice, uneven, empty circle of ASII greeted me. No contact in the center of the orb!

lapping the orb definitely improved both the contact & the temps I was getting (the Asus board has HW monitoring). Just for ha-has I ran the board prior to lapping. the temps were higher than with the retail HSF/silicone goop by about 4 degrees! now w/ lapping got about 3 degrees lower. still not great performance (IMHO), but it's cooler so i'm keeping it!

 

[Phuz]

Boycott Thermaltake and their CPU killing HSFz!

 

[Joony]

woohooo

 

[PlunX]

Are you sure it wasn't a bootleg? I've seen about three bootlegs of Blue Orbs that even say Thermaltake on the package...

 

[Joony]

nope, its thermaltake...fake ones dont have the holes on the sides...