how do you guys lap the ihs? in the socket? take it out? if you take it out, how do you do it without bending pins? and is it worth it to do? i'm not worried so much about the warrentee on my x2 3800+ i have coming, i'm going to be overclocking the piss out of it, thus voiding it... even if its 1 or 2C difference, thats enough for me...
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lapping the IHS?
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SomeoneWhoIsntMe
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for god sakes take the CPU out before lapping it, and to take it out you just put the lever in the up position and it will come right out.
read howtos on heatsink lapping, its the same for a cpu.
sanding paper on table, and flip your ihs to rest o nthe paper, then slide it accordingly.
It'd be easier to remove your IHS then lap it.
but apparnetly you're not smart enough to know how to lap an IHS I woudln't advise YOU de-IHS'ing your chip.
sanding paper on table, and flip your ihs to rest o nthe paper, then slide it accordingly.
It'd be easier to remove your IHS then lap it.
but apparnetly you're not smart enough to know how to lap an IHS I woudln't advise YOU de-IHS'ing your chip.
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just hold the edges of the chip and sand it, its not hard, just dont use too much water as you dont want a river of water like when you do HS's but just enough so its wet so the sand paper doesnt get clogged
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Elysian said:oh gee thanks i would have never guessed to pull up that lever...
Well you asked how to take out a processor without bending the pins....
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no, he asked if you do take it out, how do you lap it with out bending the pins...seems like im the only one who can read in this thread.SomeoneWhoIsntMe said:Well you asked how to take out a processor without bending the pins....
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Have the original package contents? Just take the cpu case with the foam inside and set it in this and go to work. This is what I (and many others) use to remove IHS's also.
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HighwayAssassins said:
sorry, the OP was kind of confusing
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You shouldn't have a problem with pins bending because you shouldn't betouching them too much anyway. But to be safe, why don't you get a piece of foam and cover the pins with it. Ideally you should get the foam from the original packaging. That should hopefully provide (some) protection.
no way! i killed too many athlon's and an axp because they didn't have an IHS, or because i took the ihs off of the k6-2's i had(had a 450 that hit 600mhz), chipped cores, even had 1 fall off, thats why i went p4 for a while, and thats why i'm back to amd now, because they adopted it again. i'd much rather lap it... and yeah i do have the origional foam, didn't even think of thatHiJon89 said:He asked how to lap a processor without bending the pins
You'll see a much larger improvement by removing the IHS completely, should get you at least 5C.
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Elysian said:
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Elysian said:
You do know that applying such a compound inhibits thermal transfer, right? Sure, it makes the bottom of the heatsink shiny, but the compound fills the microscopic pores of the heatsink, where your thermal paste should be occupying.
Just a heads up
.I have noticed with my mirror finished waterblocks that they are somewhat difficult to get off the dies and have to be twisted a bit before they come off. How much more difficult is removal when both surfaces (\waterblock and IHS) have mirror finishes?
not when you clean it with alcohol before applying thermal pasteDarkenReaper57 said:You do know that applying such a compound inhibits thermal transfer, right? Sure, it makes the bottom of the heatsink shiny, but the compound fills the microscopic pores of the heatsink, where your thermal paste should be occupying.
Just a heads up
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So then you can lap it for like 5 seconds with the 2000 grit and you're set.DarkenReaper57 said:You do know that applying such a compound inhibits thermal transfer, right? Sure, it makes the bottom of the heatsink shiny, but the compound fills the microscopic pores of the heatsink, where your thermal paste should be occupying.
Just a heads up