Lapping your Processor Simlified

This video shows how to lap a computer processor,
ONE THING I DID NOT MENTION IN VIDEO!
(the foam pad that your processor ships with is ideal for covering/protecting the pins on your processor while your lapping)

Category:

Education

Tags:

• lapping
• lap
• cpu lapping
• heatsink lapping
• computer lapping
• cpu
• computer

[kenmha]

Is that good for the processor?? I mean look at all those scracthes thats on the surface

[cursed1815]

@kenmha I Finished the lapping after this video and havent finished video two yet, but watch my video on thermal interface material application and you can see the mirror finish of this cpu finished

[WestCoastMods]

Why would anyone lap a stock heatsink? lol

Also I am no lapping guru, but knowing how heat transfers through thermal conductivity, the flatter the surface is the better it will perform. Regardless of how shinny it is, any scratch marks left from sanding will produce mixed results. Even though they are barley visible to the naked eye. but put under a microscope those barley visible scratches will look like huge canals. Was that the final result after using 1500, 2000, and 3000 grit paper?

[cursed1815]

i consider mirror and smooth two different things, if you get anal about a mirror reflection and use pastes, ect... those microscopic scrathes that you refer to love to house that crap and can be detrimental to the thermal conductivity your trying to obtain in the first place, and the stock HSink was for demo i hadent received my other heatsinks yet i show in some other vids

[WestCoastMods]

I agree about the difference between mirror and smooth, but you don't need to use paste or any other medium to get a mirror finish. Using 2000, 3000 grit wet sandpaper will also give you a mirror finish, heck I've even gotten a mirror finish just using 2000 grit as the final stage, even though I still would like to say that just because it's mirrored or smooth does not mean that it is completely FLAT! would you not agree.

LazyMan :-)

[cursed1815]

Absolutly

[ShaneyPo0]

@stuart38 I dont think that would achive an even "clean", as the 2 flat surfaces

against / supporting each other.

[legionarivsroma]

every time i jumped/seek the video forward he was saying "ahn"

LOL

Anyway, good job!

[Intanius]

@WestCoastMods

Couldn't using really high grits net worse performance than stopping at a low grit because The high grits will leave smaller scratches in the metal than any tim can fill so when you apply tim it stays in a thin layer instead of spreading into microscopic scratches and thus acts as an insulating layer between the cooler and ihs, and even though the metal is extremely flat it still won't make good enough contact to run the heatsink with no tim.

[pyromaniac2323]

im starting to think the cpu was meant to be lapped straight out of box, and the only reason for tht nickel coating was protection in storage and shipping. otherwise y wud amd or intel ruin good conductivity, im also thinking i shud have reasized this a long ass time ago haha

[EuphoricDuffer]

thanks for simlifying it for me!

[stuart38]

this lapping business looks effective,as for the method,why not use a dremel drill with a polishing bit?would it work?

[seal1207]

3:29 rub it reeeal goood