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Q6600 G0 lapping thread.
- Thread starter Servo
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its called ocuk for a reason
and overclocking doesnt kill chips, its putting stupid voltage into it that kills it.
Thats so true, I've never had a chip fail o/c, but I do agree more volts more chance of the chip dying.
Soldato
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Does lapping avoid the warrenty if you go up to really fine grain so that its not got noticble scratch marks from the lapping. Or is there some Intel marking on it that will get rubbed off? Otherwize how would they know if it had a mirror finnish.
hey i'd be bitter too if i did my warranty for 3c
i don't think there's really any need for lapping the G0's unless you have extremely high temps and obviously a bad ihs
and i certainly wouldn't lap a water block like some here, all your increasing is your stupidity and the almost certain possibility of higher temps.
hey i'd be bitter too if i did my warranty for 3c
i don't think there's really any need for lapping the G0's unless you have extremely high temps and obviously a bad ihs
and i certainly wouldn't lap a water block like some here, all your increasing is your stupidity and the almost certain possibility of higher temps.
In the overclocking world, 3 degrees is a lot
Quite right Servo...the 3c i gained was a bonus...if he cared to look @ my post where i posted my 3.5ghz clock and took note of temps and how out they were between the 2 ( 13c )....as my chip was found to be convex so my heatsink was not making proper contact which was not only showing a stupid temp difference but failing prime after 2 hours....so my aim was to get my system stable @ 3.5ghz on AIR with a 29 quid heatsink which is now done!...so there you go marscay ....Bitter me no lol...happy with the difference i made to sacrafice a warranty which i don't think would get used anyway....of course!.
moving to phase change temps is a big difference, 3c is pretty pony
vocch - i didn't realise you had a 13c delta between cores, pretty unusual not to drop more than 3c overall when you had such a crap IHS - but as long as you got it stable now that's all that matters.
btw i'm not an anti-lapper i did my e6600 and never regretted dropping those 7-8c to lose my warranty.
Did mine the other day due to bad temps and uneven temps across the cores (7c difference between core 0 and core 2!) with an average of 58c load iirc @3.6ghz under water. The IHS was worse than my e6600's the edges were raised and the centre was also convex which would have been ok for e6600 but not for quads. Its not in my system yet as I'm waiting for a PSU so I'll report back with any differences found. Here are a few pics of the results after 30 mins of lapping.
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It was the dining table before the kids decided to design the latest gigabyte mobo - now its my work bench
Not sure they would have had enough colours.
Gigabyte just seem to invent more and more for their new motherboards.
400 to begin with
800 to get rid of the plating
1000
1500
2000
The trick is once you get past 1000 is to hardly apply any pressure at all to the cpu - just let its weight do the work. Also you MUST clean the cpu after switching paper grades.
There will hardly be any cooling benifit going past 800 tbh but it will help resale value if its nice and shiny as the lap job looks more proffessional even though it will be flat at 800 grade.
800 to get rid of the plating
1000
1500
2000
The trick is once you get past 1000 is to hardly apply any pressure at all to the cpu - just let its weight do the work. Also you MUST clean the cpu after switching paper grades.
There will hardly be any cooling benifit going past 800 tbh but it will help resale value if its nice and shiny as the lap job looks more proffessional even though it will be flat at 800 grade.