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Just like with the other heatsinks, you have to make sure that the 1st clip you put on is absolutely flush with the socket. The Orb is unique in that it has three holes that mate with the three tabs on the 462 socket.
Actually, the worst part of the Orb is the diagram on the side of the box. The image seems to imply that you simply ROCK the heatsink into position. Wonder how you took that chunk out of the corner of the die? I don't.
Regardless of the drawing on the box, make sure the heatsink is flush before even THINKING of trying the other side of the clip. Don't even THINK about it. Think about something else. An Audi TT, Comdex babes in bikinis, a fishing weekend in Alaska... whatever! Just make sure the heatsink is FLUSH!
Fortunately, the NEWER Thermaltake Orb (the silver one often called the Chrome Orb, or ChOde for short, even though it is not chrome and has been in seen in BOTH gold and chrome colors) has a couple slight improvement. Slight. For one, it's silver because AMD recommends a non colored heatsink surface. Secondly, the newer orb has little plastic spacers on either side of the die contact to prevent the heatsink from "rocking" on the CPU.
Apparently, Confucius say that round eye American devil break many CPU with superior cooling solution, thus AMD pulled the Thermaltake Orb from it's list. This prompted Thermaltake to make these improvements PER AMD. But apparently, these improvements simply weren't enough. For a brief time, Thermaltake actually had the above HSF on their website AND this below one:
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