My setup :-

Intel C2Q QX9650
Xigmatek Achilles
Biostar TPower I45
Crucial Ballistix 1GB x 4
ATI Radeon 3850
Thermaltake Toughpower 750w
Gigabyte 3D Aurora 570

Below are the pictures comparing each step for every grade of sandpaper used...







This is after very long sanding on 2000 grit paper


This is after 2nd round of very long sanding on 2000 grit paper



These are the temp shots....

Before lapping:-


After lapping:-


From the temp shots you can see that the whole process of dismantling, lapping and assembling takes about 4 hours.....

This job cost me RM21 worth of sandpaper (from MidValley Ace Hardware), lots of paper towel, RM2.90 worth of tape, some dish washer and swollen fingers but its worth the trouble, temps are lower by 5-7 degrees on load!!

Now I might just be able to push it another 200Mhz to 4Ghz......

This post has been edited by kayef: Dec 12 2008, 05:58 AM

whoa... so semangat lap ar ?

good job bro !!

wah i thought direct touch heat pipe cannot lap wan.... u did a great job man.... by the way what thermal paste u using?

Awesome result. U can check for pimples there d....like mirror. LOL

That's what I heard too....HDT cannot lap but I figured I wont be able to take too much thickness off and Xigmatek wont make such thin pipes so I gave it a shot.

I'm using Artic Silver 5

credits to e_ti who travels all de way to midv in de rain n jam to search for the sand papers

wahahhahaha.... credits credits !!!


kayef, now u can gimme some of your remaining artic silver 5

My AS 5 expire already one.....go get tx-2

Great temps, you make me wanna lap mine

Work hard for good results
Respect the effort you put in TS and deservedly you get satisfactory results. Unfortunately for me, aroudn my place the finest they have is 1500 grit and all the guides i read they use 2000 as finisher. so

ya he is the TS

LOLZ

nice mannnnnnnn
i lapped mine....but not cun lik urs
impressive man

lap again la...n show the results...

Do it....don be lazy, I see a lot of people getting great temps after lapping, worth the time and effort

If you cant find 2000 grit paper then i guess 1500 is good enough too, seen some ppl use 1600 as finisher, just have to keep sanding on the final grade

Woi!!Don la kacau kacau here.....

Thanks...take out and do again la......

Kayef... did u do on wet or dry condition?

To those who's attempting to lap HDT based, do bare in mind the limits of it. U do not want to lap till the inner part of the HDT tube is exposed

wet condition, water and soap

owh....... ok thanks... im doing dry on my TRUE 120

hey you know we actually have a lapping guide/thread around
could you post it up there?
i dare not merge this thread cause quite a lot of not so constructive posts.
thanks TS