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

I was just checking out your temps and noticed the huge temp spread between your 4 cores.

Before lapping, there is a 21 deg difference core 0 and core 3.

After lapping, the difference is 24 deg.

Shouldn't this be a cause of concern?

On my pc's I get at the most 7 deg spread.

Most probably caused by wrong reading due to the problematic tjunction >.<

How do I post it there?U mean just put my first post there and close this thread?

Yes, I want to know also how come this occur, some people on the net experience this too but mine seems to be a bit extreme!!

So the chip is not really that hot?

kayef, this is your 1st lapping job?

yeah

got picture to share ?

its on the first post, u cant see it?

hopefully he is not posting that with the intention to spam

he is very famous in lyn

if like that u also spamming with those post.

btw i can only lapped mine up to 1500 grit sp coz i just cant find 2k grit sp here in this small town.

I tried lapping(1500grit adhesive paper) Intel stock heatsink just now. No special method used, I just applied some water and lap it... Surface wasn't as reflective as imagined.

This post has been edited by Silverfire: Dec 28 2008, 08:40 PM

He is blind
He is actually johnkor,the infamous spammer

Dude try to find it in car shop or any mall that selling the hardware stuff...

a good stuff is always rare and hard to find ler...

he he he...

Try to find a 2000 or over...it will give you a perfect shine...he he he...as im doing it on my windsor...



This post has been edited by verdict: Dec 29 2008, 07:20 AM

Lazy to go DIY shop get

How come lazy dude...want something good,you have to travel a lot liao...

all da best...as im looking for a perfect shining...still searching for a higher grid...



This post has been edited by verdict: Dec 29 2008, 07:43 AM

I think there's a 4000grit or something... Anyway, verdict, if you can find 2000grit or higher, tell me. Help me buy

Okay bro...near my house got one shop selling 2000 grid,but now im looking for higher one...later i'll let you know....

Lap until kenot see the heat pipes..see how is the performnace..
Gud job for you bro..XD

i got myself an Achilles too.can u tell me how long did u lap it using 2000 grit?coz i'm afraid that i'll overdo it. "

great work for for TS..anyway, i still didn't exactly know on how to lap properly or do the lapping. i also got achilles, can you tell me how you exactly do it? interested to try also..nice bro.

Ask uncle google la. Lapping is easy, all it takes is time and patient

hmm.. mybe i will also try lap on my gemin2... mine after put tuniq tx2.. the degree of diffnt just 1C... b4 this just put without therma paste.. hmm...

Talking about the paste....what paste did the TS use? Previously before lapping what paste applied?

do you OC ur proc?

Hi there, for sure he OC his proc dude! otherwise he wont need to do the lapping wor!