Anyone tried to lap away the Thermalright issue

I do have one cut. It's on my foot when I dropped the flipping thing as the base was slippery.

The HSF only just fits in the P182.....:o

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I have mounted it top to bottom rather than the conventional front to back as there are too many Gigabyte heatpipes etc in the way. .....:o

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I am considering removing the fan on top of the case and making some kind of duct straight up, then using another spare 120 amber to push air. Hopefully the push pull action venting straight out will be better. So far only a 2°c to 5°c difference. Rises to 59° on all four cores in Prime within 30mins.

And yes I took the "crazy cool" plate off the bottom of the mobo so I could use the "X" brackets as this thing is heavy, as you all know.
 
Its immediate as you start lapping how bad it is. Below pic currently at 1200 grit. I didnt spend that long being an4l about it all rotating it 90 degrees and doing 360 rotations on each grit. I rotated a couple of times up through the grits. I was careful to spend a while on the first grit I used to get it flat. Remarkably, two corners on mine just will not go flat as they literally curl away at an extreme. I am talking like a mm though and its at the very corner of the corner point so would not affect a CPU IHS.

I just need to make a final 1600 grit pass I think and I'm not sure I can be bothered with polishing compund just to get a mirror finish for forum brownie points. Just going to 1600 grit it and be done with it. Its flat = done.

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EDIT: Bad pic actually as Im not holding the card horizontal to the sink which might give false illusions. Oh well, check th elight NOT shining through anywhere now. Its flat.
 
HatMan said:
I do have one cut. It's on my foot when I dropped the flipping thing as the base was slippery.

The HSF only just fits in the P182.....:o



I have mounted it top to bottom rather than the conventional front to back as there are too many Gigabyte heatpipes etc in the way. .....:o



I am considering removing the fan on top of the case and making some kind of duct straight up, then using another spare 120 amber to push air. Hopefully the push pull action venting straight out will be better. So far only a 2°c to 5°c difference. Rises to 59° on all four cores in Prime within 30mins.

And yes I took the "crazy cool" plate off the bottom of the mobo so I could use the "X" brackets as this thing is heavy, as you all know.
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I was thinking of using some ducting in my case, kind of completely isolating the cpu. I was thinking of the usual fan blowing through my TRUE and the exhaust of my case sucking out the other side, but in addition having some ducting fed by a fan at the top of my case straight to the push fan on the true giving a permanent fresh supply of air. I wouldnt duct to the exhaust as its so close to it anyway and would want the rest of th ecase air to be exhausted as well.

I would have to cut my own fan hole for that though and mod my case, not that thats hard.
 
Ok so it's been running all night idling and the temps are 48°/48°/47°/49. I can't say I am amazed but I think I will get improvements to some better ducting or fan movement.
 
Idle temps wont change much though. Mainly load temps you should be looking at. Why is it idling at 49c? Is it me or is that excessively hot. I'd be looking for load temps around there! My 100% overclocked e2140 idles in the 20s with stock cooler and poor case cooling.
 
I just recieved this from TR support...

If you lap your CPU then you would have to lap the heatsink. Although if you choose to lap the heatsink, this voids all warranties. Yes, the heatsink was designed to compensate for the uneven surface of most CPUs.

In our testing the convex base had lower temps than a completely flat base. This was also proven over numerous processors. Finally, yes the heatsink can move slightly, although only if you force it to move.

Loren
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CyZMyAssBaby said:
So very true m8 Happy New Year to You (helm did you see post 27 of this thread m8;))

HatMan

if your interested washer mod

http://www.exoid.com/?page_id=94
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Na, I gave up on these threads after last one was closed, It only caught my eye in list of new posts, and I know of the washer/penny mod from XS.

May be a bit slow tonight but what begins in F and ends in EM ? lol.

Edit lol, you mean sexually abuse them ? :p
 
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It's come to my attention that all of you seem to have way better temps than I do. PC has been on all night and my temps are 48°/48°/48°/49 @ 1.325v stock. All my fans are 800rpm Noctuas so my feeling is simply airflow is poor. Back in the day when I built the rig, I did a smoke test to check airflow. Back then I was using the stock fans. I haven't done the smoke test here as airflow path is satisfactory. Anyone with a suggestion for very quiet fans with more air pressure than Noctua 120 800rpm's.

Cheers
 
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