Movement with TRUE 120

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Hi guys,

Just installed a new system for a friend, and was dissappointed with the clamp on the Thermalright ultra extreme still allowing the cooler to turn very easily. (I.e. I can easily nudge it and it rotates very slightly).

Is this because of the cack thermal paste supplied or something else. Is this ok!?! Normally I expect the cooler to be mounted solidly with no movement possibly.

Note: This is with Asus P5Q Pro and E8400 if it matters. And temps actually seem ok.

Matthew
 
Good tip on the washers :) Glad to see this is normal with the cooler, but still a bit daft IMHO.

Didn't source mine from OCUK due to the price (sorry ocuk, but price was VERY different).

Pneumonic said:
its normal for there to be some movement you can use a washer or 2p to tighten it down if it really bothers you
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As heatsink pressure can affect efficiency a fair bit, yeah.. i'm botherd by it :) It's not my system either so me building a system that doesn't often get checked by the user may be a problem if the Thermal Paste comes out due to movement.

Matthew
 
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tyranus said:
Are these coolers any good? Better than the tuniq tower?

Very expensive though..:eek:
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A lapped TRUE will spank the TT back to the stone age... out of the box the TRUE is better but not much than the TT..

They are expensive, it will need lapping... but it will cool like no other air cooler once you have done that
 
Does the TRUE Black edition still have the problems with the base the way the original does?

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There isn't a problem with the base? Internet rumours get out of hand. .

"Well I spoke to this bloke who knows a bloke who said. . . ."

I'm using a TRUE out the box with no mods and its working great, I haven't lapped the base and I haven't done the Polo-Mod and the pressure is good, I can't swivel mine onces its attached.
 
There is enough posts to explain why the bases were mess in here and all over forums on the web, any fool could see its not intentional as each is a diff shape.

Bad QA TBH.

The Movement was sorted partly by a revision to the bracket (Nylon washer in some).

There was a shortage of them for a while, the story goes they may have sorted the base issues and are a lot flatter.
 
Big.Wayne said:
There isn't a problem with the base? Internet rumours get out of hand. .

"Well I spoke to this bloke who knows a bloke who said. . . ."

I'm using a TRUE out the box with no mods and its working great, I haven't lapped the base and I haven't done the Polo-Mod and the pressure is good, I can't swivel mine onces its attached.
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I've seen results with un-lappped & lapped & the temps do make a difference, will have to dig out the results later.

I put a razor blade across my TRUE 120 & the surface was definitly not flat.

Lapped mine for a few hours, didnt get the mirror finish but close enough & now the surface is totally flat with a copper finish not nickel.
 
Nelly, I would not waste your time, its been argued 10x or more here and elsewhere.

The bases were a mess and no 2 were the same, caused by welding after base was machined which buckles due to heat.
 
ThermalRight admitted that the base of the heatsink wasn't flat, They said they did this on purpose due to the C2D' IHS being concave.

Now this suggests that they only intended the heatsink to be used on the C2D CPU's
Which is BS tbh.

What if you wanted to use it on an A64 CPU? Would the heatsink sit flat on the CPU?
Of course it wouldn't.

Some of the CPU's are either convex or concave(I think the problem has been sorted now though) This must have been due to the way the IHS was applied. Either pressure being applied to the centre or the sides but never an even seal.

Now that the IHS issue has been sorted what excuse can ThermalRight give?
 
Mine and a friends moved from day one and clearly when I checked after a few 'moves' the paste had gone from the centre ... then they were lapped .. they still moved. Now they have strips of double sided sticky foam (a few mms thick) attached to the underside of the bracket where it joins the top of the TRUE base .. it no longer moves and has a bit of added pressure and I am happy with it at last :D
 
Well I havent brought a TRUE in a good six months... the four I have brough previously have all shown dramatic increases in performance with a lapped CPU and the TRUE... how much of this is down to the CPU being lapped as well is hard to tell as I have always done both at the same time... but I was only really happy with one of the bases out of the four I have brought and lapped it for good measure..
 
Big.Wayne said:
There isn't a problem with the base? Internet rumours get out of hand. .

"Well I spoke to this bloke who knows a bloke who said. . . ."

I'm using a TRUE out the box with no mods and its working great, I haven't lapped the base and I haven't done the Polo-Mod and the pressure is good, I can't swivel mine onces its attached.
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Same here, I checked the flatness of the base using a metal ruler too and there was very little light coming through underneath it, it sounds like some people are luckier than others though.
 
I have just got mine about a week ago and I can confirm on mine there are issues like that in reviews of heatpipes not connecting fully with the base.
 
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