I relapped my CPU and Thermalright Ultra 120 Extreme and NO IMPROVEMENT! I realize now that it's useless if you are air cooling this. Totally useless and a waste of time.
If you already had good contact then you did not needed it.
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I relapped my CPU and Thermalright Ultra 120 Extreme and NO IMPROVEMENT! I realize now that it's useless if you are air cooling this. Totally useless and a waste of time.
Awesome man many thanx
Let me know your results ie: your BIOS/Windows/Load voltages plz.
And @ Asia911, spoken like a tru 9y/o
I lapped my e4400 because of bad contact between it and an Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro aircooler.
Result: 10C drop in load temps.
Bad contact is bad contact, regardless of cooling method.
Turtuletrax do you have clear picture of your mod.
First you want to mark the CPU with the marker on all four corners like you see in the picture.
I bet your pc likes it though
Look, theres a good reason to move to Canada. Imagine your temps in South Florida where it gets to 90% humidity and real air temps are at 90F to 95F and it feels like 100F.
Bruce you need to show some commitment man. Keep doing you will get there, for faster process you need lower Grit Sandpaper, when you get to the bottom then use higher grit for smother surface.
Turtletrax i hope you did not record those CPU's temp outside.
Of course, it will cost more to heat your house if you vent all that lovely cpu heat outside.That way I am not running my system outside and I dont have to pay to heat the whole neighborhood
I would be conscience about keeping the IHS flat while sanding. Flatness is the main concern while lapping and you would hate to sand the IHS uneven, then get to the core and sand it before knowing that you have reached it. My guess is the cores are even more sensitive @ 65nm. Not much damage would kill the core.
and of course, in the event of a successful IHS removal, pics will most definately be posted
SOAP is a very bad idea in my opinon.
That would be my guess as well. If you read AS5 instructions for instance, they recommend staying away from soaps, scented cleaners or anything that might have oils, perfumes or dyes. Any or all of these factors may reduce your total performance. To the person who suggested soap, could you please elaborate on why you did? I'm just dying to know, seeing as it contradicts everything I've heard thus far related to CPU's.
To the person who suggested soap, could you please elaborate on why you did?
At the end I took a pair of scissors and started gouging the side of the proc, hoping to get an idea of how far down the IHS went, but even after a few minutes of hard digging I *still* couldn't get past the IHS.....
Even with the *deeep* gouge I put in it off center, and despite the fact that i didn't reapply any thermal grease, the processor worked just fine after I put the dell heatsink back on.....
Although I'm not that person, I'll take a stab at it. There are places where a soap solution has been suggested as a lubricating agent for wet sanding.
Current consensus is that low-smell kerosine, or just plain water, is the agent of choice. However, with a good ispropyl cleaning, it shouldn't make too much of a difference whether you use soap, plain water, or Jello pudding.
At the end I took a pair of scissors and started gouging the side of the proc, hoping to get an idea of how far down the IHS went, but even after a few minutes of hard digging I *still* couldn't get past the IHS.....
Even with the *deeep* gouge I put in it off center, and despite the fact that i didn't reapply any thermal grease, the processor worked just fine after I put the dell heatsink back on.....
Wow... just wow. You, sir, are nuts!
does this usally work with all cpus? is it just like removing some of the metal from the heatsink of the cpu side tiself?
so did the guy get down past the heat spreader yet?
the new mod of the year.......
sanding the heatspreader down to super thin sheet of paper/copper.