A minor danger with lapping! Pay attention young ones.

[Lupiron]

Here is one danger with lapping! Better pay attention to the size of the capacitors and other mechanical objects of height. Here is my sad story!

While messing with my water cooling, i've had mixed results in the past, and couldnt really figure out why. The water block is picky anyways, BUT I did find out that due to a row of capacitors thats like 1/10th of an inch away from the processor socket, that if I lap a chip, believe it or not, that it places it at just UNDER the required height due to those Fing capacitors.

As in, no more contact! A fully normal IHS has just enough height to make full contact with it. If you take away the smallest amount it can no longer sit properly due to other factors.

So pay attention when you go to lap a chip. Look to make sure that the contact with the IHS isnt at its minimal distance. Because if it is, you may no longer get contact with that lapped processor. Partial contact is kewl at stock speed, but I yanked my VID 1.2000 Q6600 out and lapped it up all nice and pretty for the Over Clock competition thats being hosted by Shadow! And now I have to either use Air, or order a smaller water block, lol! Isnt that sad?

Check out the Over Clock competition thread!

--Lupi!

 

[closed_deal]

Ah doesn't sound good. What to you reckon you can get out of her on air? About 3.8Ghz, but HOT.

P.S What block were you using?

 

[roadrunner197069]

LoL.

 

[wip99gt]

damn that sucks

 

[Shadow703793]

I feel sorry for you 🙁.

As for the thread he was talking about:
http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/forum2.php?config=tomshardwareus.inc&cat=29&post=246979&page=1&p=1&sondage=0&owntopic=3&trash=0&trash_post=0&print=0&numreponse=0&quote_only=0&new=0&nojs=0

 

[Lupiron]

It's no big deal, but I wanted lapping people to be aware that it can happen! I guess I will have to use my back up chip, a 1.2375 VID q6700. Cant get many points because it starts at 2.66 and the test competition takes OC percentage into account!

Since the q6x00 series has about the same limits, the extra 2.66 doesnt help when factors like OC percentage is taken into account! Because there appears to be a technology limit at about 3.8ish and staying prime stable durring it at 1.50 or less.

--Lupi!

 

[bf2gameplaya]

So pay attention when you go to lap a chip.

Since when do you lap a heatspreader on a cpu? You lap the HSF's base, not the chip it sits on!

 

[Lupiron]

Uhh. What? You lap them both! And that would make my problem worse! Its just a koolance all in one, anyways. I just need a better block! Anyone know of a smaller block that has good performance?

--Lupi!

 

[Shadow703793]

^Yes, you can lap both. I generally lap both CPU and HSF. This makes sure both the HSF and CPU are completely flat.

You might want to post the warnings on the lapping stickies.

 

[closed_deal]

Innovatek G-Flow is a smaller water block, bit expensive mind.

 

[Lupiron]

Wow! Of course the lga 775 is the most expensive! I will have to measure out the size of the area around the socket on my Maximus formula and make sure in advance. How's the performance?

--Lupi

 

[Lupiron]

As Shadow said, you can lap them both. In my situation lapping makes things worse because the water block cant bond with the heat sink due to height. Its literally no longer able to make contact with the IHS because I filed off a hairs worth of height.

Thanks to the size of the water block, and the nearness and height of the capacitors like 1/10 of an inch away from the socket, it can no longer touch effectively.

Other than that type of situation, lapping them both makes a good amount of difference.

--Lupi!

 

[closed_deal]

I've personally gone for the EK Supreme on a P5E X38 mobo and i'm 100% sure it'll fit. I think my mobo actually has maximus printed on it under the sticker near my PCI-E slot. hmmm

The performance of the G-Flow is below the EK and D-Tek. EK is better than a stock D-Tek. D-Tex with Accel nozzels is the best cooling performance , but is quite restrictive.

*EDIT* http://www.specialtech.co.uk/spshop/customer/product.php?productid=5139&cat=0&page=

 

[Lupiron]

Yeah. I guess my limit will be that its an all in one koolance kit. I think having the best water block would matter only to a degree, due to its limits.

So a super good block would only be okay, because thats the performance rating I'd give to the setup I have. 😉~

I guess I will just have to take the time and do my research! Where is my Padawan when you need him? Isnt that what an apprentice is for? All the boring work?

--Lupi!

 

[closed_deal]

Maybe this will cancel the need for a little minion ;

http://forums.extremeoverclocking.com/p2976310.html

 

[Shadow703793]

^Nice find.

 

[Lupiron]

Luckily I got the whole case for 100 bucks off craigs list, with the water block.

That is a good find though! Gotta readreadread. Thats what the minion is for. He reads, and then gives you a summary!

Thanks!

--Lupi!

 

[iluvgillgill]

then why dont you put a layer back on and lap it again to your desire level?