In March i rebuilt my rig and since then I have been having some fairly high temp numbers and today with time on my hands I decided to fix it.
You can see here my temps (ambient temp was 82F)
When i ran TAT at 75% or higher my warning beep would go off. I knew I had probably screwed up and with all the lapping talk over in the CPU overclocking forum I decided why not lap both my cpu and heatsink when i reset the heatsink.
Regardless when i took out my mobo this is what I saw. When i reseated the heatsink after my lapping was done I decided to install the heatsink out of the case so i could verify that I did indeed get all 4 pins inserted correctly.
Here is the proc before and here is Ms Alba showing how shiny it is now (not to mention much much flatter) While I was lapping it the edges stood out as ridges hard core. I ended up using 200 grit for a good 20-25 minutes till the nickel was almost all the way gone before moving on to 400, 800, 1000 and finally some 2000. All in all it took me a good 1+ for just my proc. My heatsink was pretty flat and all I really did was smooth out some scratches with some 800 and 1000 grit.
Finally here's the after temps. I learned that properly mounting your heatsink makes a huge difference. That and it's always cool when you can see a copy of Jessica Alba in your CPU 🙂
You can see here my temps (ambient temp was 82F)
When i ran TAT at 75% or higher my warning beep would go off. I knew I had probably screwed up and with all the lapping talk over in the CPU overclocking forum I decided why not lap both my cpu and heatsink when i reset the heatsink.
Regardless when i took out my mobo this is what I saw. When i reseated the heatsink after my lapping was done I decided to install the heatsink out of the case so i could verify that I did indeed get all 4 pins inserted correctly.
Here is the proc before and here is Ms Alba showing how shiny it is now (not to mention much much flatter) While I was lapping it the edges stood out as ridges hard core. I ended up using 200 grit for a good 20-25 minutes till the nickel was almost all the way gone before moving on to 400, 800, 1000 and finally some 2000. All in all it took me a good 1+ for just my proc. My heatsink was pretty flat and all I really did was smooth out some scratches with some 800 and 1000 grit.
Finally here's the after temps. I learned that properly mounting your heatsink makes a huge difference. That and it's always cool when you can see a copy of Jessica Alba in your CPU 🙂
