Thermalright 120 Ultra Extreme return or lap?

[Jleo]

Thermalright 120 UE Bannana

 

[robj20]

I would return it along with a copy of those pictures, thats just rubbish.

 

[Fothsn]

You need to do more than lapping looking at the first picture, shocking!

As above send the retailer a copy of the pictures as well, maybe Thermalright there could be a dad batch out there!

 

[Billy 2 Sips]

How the hell did that get through Quality Control

 

[postmanfw]

Finish is terrible agreed but i thought that they were meant to be slighty concaved by design?

Has been talked about in other threads.

 

[Sinopa]

Concave? Is that not convex?

 

[Thebug]

Concave? Is that not convex?

Yep its convex, i had the same problem so i emailed thermalright and they said thats how its supposed to be - yea right

Took mine to a local metal worker/polisher who got it flat and the temps dropped by an extra few degrees.

 

[Sinopa]

Yep its convex, i had the same problem so i emailed thermalright and they said thats how its supposed to be - yea right

So all the people who have got a flat base have a faulty one

 

[Thebug]

So all the people who have got a flat base have a faulty one

No its thermalright trying to fob us off.

 

[JIM_BOB7813]

A £40 cooler and they can't even make it flat? I was thinking about getting one of these (Ultima 90) but i'm not so sure now.

 

[Mekrel]

No its thermalright trying to fob us off.

Nope, it's not

 

[postmanfw]

Finish is terrible agreed but i thought that they were meant to be slighty concaved by design?

Has been talked about in other threads.

oops my bad

 

[Marse]

Anandtech:

Thermalright designs do use the convex (bowed) base plate which has been shown to increase cooling by 2C to 3C and therefore increase overclocks.

How convex is anybody's guess or whether you go with concave or even flat is perhaps a question of luck or personal preference.

If I was the OP I wouldn't be very happy either.

 

[Fothsn]

I have the same cooler and I can tell you it isn't like that, there is no way its designed to be that much convex/concave! Looking at the first picture it seems as though its being angled & cut wrong.

Send them an email with the pictures you have taken and see what response you get??

 

[postmanfw]

Mine was the same as ops one but i just lapped it along with cpu.

Didnt do a before and after to compare though Think they designed it that way as most cpu ihs dip in middle.

 

[valerian]

Thermalright 120 UE Bannana

mine was exactly the same as that, flat one way, curved on the other axis, i lapped mine, and dont regret it, did my head in doing it though

 

[Gerard]

I had one of those hsf's and it was exactly the same story, fired off an email to thermalright about it and of course got no reply. I think its pathetic you pay 40 odd quid for a heatsink and the tards that manufacture it can't even get the bottom flat despite their claims of haveing an eye on the quality of the bases of these.

Ended up lapping it..got fed up and binned it.

 

[MumboJumbo]

send it back to retailer. Under 7 day act they have to take it back but really it should be an rma. Phone them.

 

[Reality|Bites]

If it's supposed to be like that and they are getting lots of complaints about it, Why don't they release an alternative version which has a flat base?

 

[helmutcheese]

I posted this elsewhere and stand by it.:

TR are talking BS.

They cant make it concave very easy on purpose, and if they did it would be uniformed across all made.

It aint, some are concave, some are convex, all in different areas of base.

It is cause they solder the Pipes and it buckles the base, they should machine the base after Pipes are soldered.