thermaltake blue orb CPU heatsink and fan

[Fistandantilis]

OK so I have been playing games on my new xBox 360 and I got worried that my PC may feel a little bit left out, so I bought one of the Thermaltake blue orb processor cooler.
The installation went as good as it could have considering I have 3 children all hounding me, saying that they are just trying to "help Daddy".
After I installed it I ran the machine for a while and started playing around with the clock speeds. Right now I got it up to 3.0ghz but my temps seem a bit high, granted it is a bit warm in my house but the idle temps zre at highest 51c and lowest 48c.
I am curious aboiut how tight do I need to screw the unit onto the mobo, I have it tight right now, well tight enough that there is no wiggle room on it but I still have a few threads that I could make it tighter, does anybody have any experience with this unit?

The specs of the machine in question are in my sig, please, is there anybody out there?

Thanks

 

[BassBomb]

It is not that great of a cooler

 

[Zap]

It isn't terribly good at cooling, but does look pretty decent. I have a Golden Orb II in my gaming rig and only went for that because it did a hair better than the stock cooler, plus nothing larger would fit (without case mods).

Seems as if this is the limit to cooling without the aid of heatpipes.

 

[Fistandantilis]

yeah, I see what you mean about it being not that great at being a cooler, that sux. my temps have dropped a bit though, I would say that overall I got about a 10 degree drop I was hopeing for more but oh well.
right now, I have mo processor clocked at 3ghz and the temps across all 4 cores is averaging about 46-49c degrees I havent had a chance to do any real testing though, I will do that at some point this week, once I get some more play time.
now that I think about it, I think that after the TIM has a chance to set in and get comfortable I will have a few degrees shaved off making things a bit more cooler.
I never really had a problem with the temps in the first place I just wanted to get rid of the original stock cooler...mission accomplished I guess.

Thanks for the replies fellas

 

[F1shF4t]

I've had one running on a quad for a while before I swapped it out. For me the temps were almost identical, maybe slightly better from memory, but the difference was that I no longer had a small jet taking off in my case.