How to destroy your CPU by lapping it

Mr-White · 24 Jul 2010 at 22:20

Of all the incredibly stupid things people do to their CPUs, including overclocking them until they are hot enough to melt steel, the single most imbecilic modification has to be lapping. Using absurdly skewed logic and completely unsupported data, lappers believe that by physically grinding down the surfaces of their CPUs to make them flatter and gain better contact with the similarly lapped surfaces of their heatsink fan cooler assembly they will lower their operating temperatures up to 20 degrees C.

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This guys an idiot, in short he claims lapping destroys the cpu with no proven benefits lol

MW

Cosimo · 24 Jul 2010 at 22:33

Hal Licino 2 years ago

Lapping is idiotic and destructive. Don't come onto my Hub and tell me to shut up.

Mike Hunt 23 months ago

Well, you're a hard-headed douchebag.

Sums up that whole page. Total rubbish.

tibbsey · 24 Jul 2010 at 22:56

Lol.

I was going to post something sensible but it's just not worth it.

Edit: P.S: I came into this thread expecting it to be about the OP having tried to lap his CPU and having destroyed it. Have to say I am a little disappoint. Oh well.

thingemajib · 24 Jul 2010 at 22:58

i can see strong arguements for both sides of the arguement.

However, the so called journalist who wrote that is clearly up his own arse

Jokester · 24 Jul 2010 at 23:04

To a certain degree he's right (ignoring the destroys CPUs bit), lapping was only ever really worth the bother with early Core2Duos where the heatspreader was so concave that the cooler didn't actually touch the CPU anywhere near the middle.

Mr-White · 25 Jul 2010 at 00:30

I've just lapped a server heatsink and it was pretty flat already but to stay its dangerous, stupid and a waste of time he's completely wrong - I've always seen lower temps after lapping

MW

Muel · 25 Jul 2010 at 00:45

What a moron....

PhillyDee · 25 Jul 2010 at 00:58

I knocked around 5 degrees off my E6600 with lapping. It doesn't damage or destroy it. As for proof, temps checked bfore and after . . . .

Slurms · 25 Jul 2010 at 01:04

BLAH!

PhoenixUK · 25 Jul 2010 at 02:04

That's what happens when WoW players go about overclocking and writing articles.

Strepsils · 25 Jul 2010 at 14:07

PhoenixUK said:
That's what happens when WoW players go about overclocking and writing articles.

Van Diemen · 25 Jul 2010 at 14:14

reiyushin · 25 Jul 2010 at 14:21

I only took 2 degrees of load temps on my Q6600 with lapping, whilst it was nice to see a drop, for me personally it was a waste of time.

Can't beat that shine though

mrtckane · 25 Jul 2010 at 14:45

tibbsey said:
Edit: P.S: I came into this thread expecting it to be about the OP having tried to lap his CPU and having destroyed it. Have to say I am a little disappoint. Oh well.

yeah, i wanted pictures of a wrecked cpu.
gutted.

Harpss1ngh · 25 Jul 2010 at 20:19

Can anyone provide me tips for lapping my E8400? I've never lapped a CPU before but I remember lapping a heatsink in my XPS M160 Laptop and it made a hell of a lot of differece!

My Zalman 9900 NT is pretty shiny and smooth though so I don't want to bother lapping it as I don't think it would make much difference and because I'm thinking of replacing it anyway, however I'd like to lap down the headspreader on my E8400.

Could anyone give me any tips on how to do this?

w3bbo · 25 Jul 2010 at 22:36

Jokester said:
To a certain degree he's right (ignoring the destroys CPUs bit), lapping was only ever really worth the bother with early Core2Duos where the heatspreader was so concave that the cooler didn't actually touch the CPU anywhere near the middle.

Precisely. I did get benifits from my Q6600 but my old E6600 saw the greatest drop in temps. I havn't bothered with my i7 as there is no need.

Muel · 25 Jul 2010 at 22:51

w3bbo said:
Precisely. I did get benifits from my Q6600 but my old E6600 saw the greatest drop in temps. I havn't bothered with my i7 as there is no need.

Makes a big difference to Phenom IIs as far as I know, but there's no way I'm doing it to mine...

Just not that bothered about a few degrees.

Reaper652 · 26 Jul 2010 at 16:10

Hal Licino deserves to be punched in the face. End of.