CPU lapped and Tuniq fan changed - WOW!

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Lapped my E6600 and changed the fan on my Tuniq for a Scythe S-Flex. I'm simply astounded! Temps have dropped 10 degrees and I can barely here my system now! Amazing!! If you have a Tuniq, it's well worth changing your fan. Even on low I don't think it was this quiet! :D :D
 
I've had the system running for over a week without changing anything, and it was a bit on the noisy side. Temps were idling around 31-32, hitting mid-50's in Orthos. Nothing wrong with that I know, but wanted to see what I could squeeze out of it.

I didn't lap the Tuniq, as it seemed ok, but I may do that some other time if the urge grabs me. More than happy with these temps for now though! :D
 
furnace said:
Is that with the fan on full or low?

Also, is that with Intel TAT?
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No fan setting, it's just plugged into mbd, so running at normal speed, which is about 1200RPM.

Yes, temps are with TAT.
TheDean said:
I don't know what 'lapping' means but those are very similar to mine at the moment. The max temp I can get my E6300 to is 52, and that is with 2 x orthos running for an hour and tuniq fan on max.

I have used the Arctic Silver 5 Thermal Compound as well.
That is using TAT.

EDIT - I forgot to say - I honestly cannot hear the noise difference from low to high on the Tuniq through my P180 - Its awesome!!! :D
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Lapping is THIS.

Those temps of yours are pretty good then. Although the E6300 generally run a bit cooler from what I've seen, but it varies a bit. No two are going to be identical.

That P180 must be one quiet case then, because on full the Tuniq fan sounded like a lawnmower in my Lian Li A10.
 
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james.miller said:
my e6600 is running very hot with a tuniq. im assuming its either not mounted correctly - doubtful, or like so many other e6600's its seems...... poor surface on the heat spreader. im not lapping a £200 cpu to drop the temps, its just not worth it.
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How hot is 'very hot' exactly?

Not much can go wrong with lapping really. I was wary, but once you get going there's nothing to it. :)
 
melbourne720 said:
To the OP (if about) was it easy to replace the fan in the Tuniq?
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Replacing the Tuniq fan is an absolute doddle. You just take out the 4 screws on the top, lift it up and out comes that whole central section. You don't need to remove the heatsink itself from the motherboard, but mine was off anyway as I'd obviously just lapped the CPU, but there is no need to remove it. The fan section is totally separate. The fan then just unscrews from within this central section and you slide in a new one, then put back into the Tuniq itself. Could not be easier. :)
 
I have not even begun to OC yet and am still running at stock with everything. Only had system running for just over a week, and a bit busy at the mo to get stuck into that, but I will be soon. Fan speed on my CPU is about 1200 (S-Flex 1200 fan in there). Max temp is hitting 50 in Orthos after about an hour and a half. That is just stock though - not sure how much that could rise when I OC.

My rear fan and front fan are only working at 800RPM for some reason though (controlled by the motherboard/bios it seems). They are both 1200RPM fans, so them running at full speed would probably knock a couple of degrees off.

Here is my rig by the way...

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melbourne720 said:
Weird, the looks a lot like my P180 with tuniq attached! The layout is the same, and I have black PSU cables.

edit: What's that blue thing in the middle of the case, on the right?
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It is Lian Li's rip off the P180 basically, so I would expect it to look similar. ;)

The blue thing is a Silentmaxx enclosure for my Raptor. Keeps it very quiet indeed.

:)
 
melbourne720 said:
Raptor for boot and a RAID for space, nice.

What board is that?
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Silentmaxx keeps it at same temp as well. Two SATA's have fan blowing on them, but Raptor is only 1 degree warmer inside the enclosure. :D

Board is the Bad Axe 2.
 
Proc said:
Only thing i have is that the original fan in the Tuniq can be speed controlled, so if it gets hot turn the fan up. With the S-Flex your limited to 1200rpm, could this be a problem or does the S-Flex shift a lot more air than the standard one?
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I wondered this myself before I switched it, but I could find no specs on the Tuniq fan which stated how much air it moved - i.e the CFM figure. But I couldn't run it faster than about 1200RPM anyway otherwise the noise just drove me insane! The Scythe fan I have in there now is super quiet at 1200RPM and my temps are great, so I highly doubt you'll have any issues. There is always going to be a small tradeoff for sound vs temps though I think. Unless you opt for watercooling. But unless you go to the extreme one way or the other, your actual performance will not be affected. :)
 
You won't be disappointed. I didn't even think the fan was working when I first switched it all back on. I had to go into the BIOS to make sure! :D
 
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