Why you should bother lapping your Heatsink?

This is why! because its not flat.
AFTER:
http://www.cheesyboofs.co.uk/upload/heatsink.jpg
http://www.cheesyboofs.co.uk/upload/cpu.jpg

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• lapping
• heatsink
• ultra
• extreme
• lap

[cheesyboofs]

All - Just to update you, two years on and this lapped Q6600 and heatsink are still going strong, overclocked at 3.4ghz and used daily - sweet.

[zomgbbqwth]

the uneveness of the cooler grill in this video...

should be one out of a thousand... cos mine doesnt move at all~ and there's no light gap when i put a credit card's edge on it~ :D

[cheesyboofs]

@zomgbbqwth - how do you know yours is not the one in a thousand that happens to be flat? :0p

[vikkiandbradley07]

@cheesyboofs

you know what gets me, spesh with cpu's more then gpus, how long they've been making them and they cant ge the surface to be flat, i mean 10 minutes more work to produce a quality cpu so the end user doesn't have to fix what intel and amd should have done in the first place!! and then loose the warranty for makeing the product better then it was before!!!!!!!!

[cheesyboofs]

@vikkiandbradley07 - I think its all down to tolerances. If they were to spend 10 extra minutes on each CPU they churn out it would impact on production. The fact that these chips even with sticky gunk fall well within 'tolerance' means they are happy.

If the fact that you have to spend 10 minutes (more like an hour) sanding this thing down so you can run the knakers off these chips and get an extra 1Ghz per core is time well spent in my opinion.

[Fyrezerk]

Why are people so challenged in understanding the concepts of lapping? Anyone who thinks lapping creates larger voids needs to follow these instructions...

1) Go outside.

2) Kneel on sidewalk.

3) Slam head into sidewalk.

4) Repeat.

[stegopainx2]

jz33040, Thermal paste is only meant to fill in microscopic voids. If there are voids in the surface, the paste will get in there and fill them in. The point of heat paste is not meant to create a layer between the heatsink and CPU.

[taejamhaha]

@izlude2 you must lap to make it suit with your processor.

[taejamhaha]

@Rhythmeister especially, their Frio and Frio OCK, concave ones

[robertxtm]

there are two kinds of cpu coolers, one is flat and the other one is concave.

[TheShortsChannel]

@glowyrm i did the same with my ATI radeon hd 6850 and now i can sefely overclock to 850 core 1150 mem wihtout overheating :) i used soem brand called coolmaster on my cpu, and antec formula 7 on my gpu

[TheShortsChannel]

@glowyrm no it is not... I REALLY DID DO THAT

[glowyrm]

@TheShortsChannel

That's a joke, right?

[TheShortsChannel]

@cheesyboofs You don't even have to Lap. I put a whole tobe of thermal paste (high qualtiy)on my intel q9300 quad core, and now it never gets above 60 celsius. EVEN WHEN GAMING! :O

[asus3571]

@Rhythmeister no i meant thermalright i know they make excellent heatsinks just seems i only see people lapping thermalrights thermaltake has come a long way with their new frio its one of the best u can get no other heatsink including the d14 can take a 990x to 5ghz on air (frio ock)

[Rhythmeister]

@asus3571 what an insult to Thermalright, they make the BEST heatsinks out there. I suspect you mean ThermalTAKE!

[izlude2]

do they sell "already lapped" coolers? also it's already april 2nd 2011, please recommend to me the 100% best air cooling solution out there (willing to dish out the cash) i'm ditching liquid for fear of.... tubular necrosis eeek