Thermaltake CL-P0257 Blue orb II CPU Cooler for LGA775 & K8

Pros: It cools great my cpu idles at 100F. Would probably be cooler but I have a silent case. Blows air on my ram. Moves a good ammount of air for being all but silent.

Cons: If someone threw it at you, you would be dead, it weighs so much. It isn't exactly the easiest thing to install. It's a bit tough to get both screws threaded without putting quite a bit uf pressure on the cpu and the fan blades gets in the way from pushing down the screws.

Overall Review: The reason it blows a good ammount of air on the memory is because it is literally ontop of my left ram slot so I had to slip in the ram chip before installing. It also covers up a good chunk of my mobo so much so I even had a bit of trouble slipping in my PSU but that was mostly because of my case. Overall I would reccomend it as a heatsink and a weapon.

Pros: Great price, great name. Cooling capacity excellent for the money

Cons: Takes up quite a bit of room, kind of low cooling fins. IT WILL NOT WORK OUT OF THE BOX FOR ALL MOTHERBOARDS! I had to modify the cooling fins, by way of grinding it down, to make it clear the cooling fins of the onboard Nvidia chipset on my new EVGA 122-CK-NF68-A1 LGA 775 NVIDIA nForce 680i SLI ATX Intel Motherboard

Overall Review: Research the mobo and this product BEFORE buying, to make sure you have sufficient clearance.

Comments: Thanks again Newegg for another fine transaction! I just built the following PC: Intel 945PSN board with Pentium 820D 2.8Ghz processor, 1GB DDR2 667 memory (2x512MB), WD Raptor 74GB 10k RPM HD, ATI PCI-E 256MB X800XL video. I used Intel's OEM heatsink and fan with factory thermal tape thinking it should be sufficient since I was not overclocking. When I booted up first time and went into bios to view I was shocked to see the core temp was 86 degrees celcius!!! I immediately went shopping and ordered this Blue Orb II along with a tube of arctic silver 5. This cooler is huge and hefty and extremely well designed and constructed. It was easy to install after removing the mainboard and now my core temp idles at 53 degrees celcius. After observing the oem heatsink I noticed the thermal tape appeared uneven as how it made contact with the cpu. The Blue Orb has torque screws that have automatic stop to make sure you get a good even contact between the copper and the cpu without having to worry about stripping the screws. I recommend this highly!!

Pros: Installation was easy on an AMD 4000+ and ASUS A8N32-SLI Deluxe. VERY quiet. Still making sure fan speed is well controlled.

Cons: Had to apply moderate pressure to get hold-down screws to engage the threaded risers. It made me uncomfortable to have to apply that much pressure.

Overall Review: Very cool, very quiet.

Pros: Whoever said this thing is HUGE...they're right! HUGE HUGE HUGE! I have this installed on an ASUS A8N-SLI mobo and I BARELY have room for my first memory slot to have memory put in! WOW! If you love blue, then this is your pick! Definately lights up the CPU too. This thing breathes a lot of air too, so it will keep your CPU cool.

Cons: NONE!

Pros: Great Heatsink and fan design for a larger case. Very quiet when tested. I was very impressed by this cooling solution for the price point.

Cons: Did not fit in Antec Super Lanboy, be sure you have the clearance under your psu, the heatsink is 140mm so if you have a 120 mm fan, center that over your proc and add a cm to the top near the psu and that will give you a good estimate to how big this heatsink and fan is...too bad I ordered it before I had my case.

Overall Review: Buy this heatsink only if you know for sure you have the clearance. Huge mistake on my part.

Pros: Customer service called and explained the problem, which was entirely my fault. It seems that not all uATX mobos are true uATX mobos. Mine was non-standard and that caused the CPU socket to be shifted just enough to create the compatibility problem. Please disregard my previous slam. I was wrong.

Cons: The fact that I put my mouth in motion before my tech smarts were in gear.

Overall Review: I just thought that this needed to be rectified. Sorry for any confusion and ill will I may have created.

Pros: Very efficient cooling, keeps my new AMD Phenom II X6 @ 20C at idle (it's 68F in my room right now), below 45C at full load. It has a blue/cyan neon led light. It's quiet at 1600rpm (But it never gets louder, since the max speed registered so far in my setup is 1650 rpm).

Cons: It's HUGE, be careful with mounting. The instructions are bad, but you can figure everything out. It will make difficult to install RAM DIMMs with heatsinks on the the first banks. I got it to work with two 2Gb G-Skill DIMMS, but it took a while, so arm yourself with patience!

Overall Review: Carefully inspect the pieces it comes with, you have both Intel and AMD mounting brackets in the package. The spacers needed from the brackets to the fan mounting screws are mounted on the Intel brackets by default. Unscrew them and put them on the AMD brackets if you're mounting on an AMD CPU.