When lapping is it advisable to do both the heatsink base, and the IHS of the cpu. My q6600 has a large variation in temps. @Idle 32, 28, 28, 24. @load in prime95 @3.4ghz 62, 62, 57, 56. Cooler is a TRUE120 which ive learned rarely come with a level base. Tia.
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for best results you will need to do both... althought this will void your warrenties
To give you some idea this is my brothers Q6600 with a TRUE and 2 Sharkoon Silent Eagle 2000 @ 3.6.. under prime small fft load, solid lines are prelap of both CPU and TRUE... dot lines are post lap... even the temps to within 2c and brought the hotest cores down 10c ish
To give you some idea this is my brothers Q6600 with a TRUE and 2 Sharkoon Silent Eagle 2000 @ 3.6.. under prime small fft load, solid lines are prelap of both CPU and TRUE... dot lines are post lap... even the temps to within 2c and brought the hotest cores down 10c ish
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Try it on the TRUE first.
Have you checked to see if your IHS is flat?
Have you checked to see if your IHS is flat?
Cheers guys ill definitely go ahead and do the both of them, although the IHS wont need to much sanding as it seems pretty flat, im not to fussed about voiding the warranties. Also what grades of grit would you reccomend.
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numerous threads on here about that, lapped both of mine and made not one bit of difference TBH
and here is my thread i started on high temps which turned into lapping:
http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=17857895&highlight=startername_PaulyD
I had quite some success by doing this
http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=17857895&highlight=startername_PaulyD
I had quite some success by doing this
Cheers TB, excellent guide, the pic with the masking tape and the foam is a great tip
So i can see mate, quite a signifigant temperature drop. Will have to nip into halfords for some wet and dry. Im a painter and decorator by trade so ive got plenty of sanding experience but unfortunately my boss never buys wet and dry just plain glasspaper, probably because its cheaper the tight git.
cheers guys.
Suppose you could be right there to, but cant do much harm to try itlapping is not always help, my q6600 has the large variation in temps before and after the lapping
Lapped both my Q6600's. Made a big difference with the B3 one (as in gained me an extra 200mhz due to lower temps), but made no difference with the G0 I had (tho it was a cool runner anyway, but I wanted to uniform the temps, but failed).
Cheers TB, excellent guide, the pic with the masking tape and the foam is a great tip
No probs, glad you liked it
Went up from 3.3ghz to 3.5ghz after the lapping. It's on the first page of the quad-core database thread.
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What kind of load is on the CPU though.
Orthos small FTT's will make your cpu hotter than any game will. Both will report 100% load.
With my system, Orthos Blend will give me 50C load when testing the 1024k batch.
as soon as it hit the 8k batch my temps rise to 60C
Orthos small FTT's will make your cpu hotter than any game will. Both will report 100% load.
With my system, Orthos Blend will give me 50C load when testing the 1024k batch.
as soon as it hit the 8k batch my temps rise to 60C
Load screen was taken running prime95 small fft test for just over an hour.