Lapping your GPU

leSLIe

leSLIe

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I want to know if anyone has lapped his GPU. I have, but only in my old Geforce 1 DDR :p, i haven´t done that since that time, i dunno about doing it to my 8800s.:eek:

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i haven´t lapped my 8800s yet, i want to know if someone has done it though

here is my old lapped Geforce 1

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that was the first GPU to have a metal "top" sorta speak, still BGA packing though
 
I bet you got a massive OC out of that beast.
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OMG!!! am I the only girl in this forum?!?!
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Possibly the only girl that knows what "lapping" means.
Or at least, has actually lapped something.
 
No, you're not the only girl. There are a few, but they're far between.

Not sure why you'd want to lap the 8800 IHS though... CPU's are one thing, but almost every modern GPU fails for some reason or another (I'm looking at you RAM). If you've got a lifetime warranty, I'd not risk it personally.
 
Can't imagine it'd help too much with the overclocking, GPUs usually hit a wall long before temperature becomes an issue. Fun little thing to mess with maybe though.
 
Arcygenical said:
No, you're not the only girl. There are a few, but they're far between.

Not sure why you'd want to lap the 8800 IHS though... CPU's are one thing, but almost every modern GPU fails for some reason or another (I'm looking at you RAM). If you've got a lifetime warranty, I'd not risk it personally.
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well i guess i just like to void warranties ;)

yes i´m not the only one, i know a couple other girls in the forum :)
 
I've lapped GPUs in the past when trying to get a bit higher 3DMark. Back when I "played 3DMark" thinking others were playing fair also. Once I found out how many were cheating, it ended that waste of time. :p
Not worth the trouble/risk now IMO.
 
Hehe.

I'm all for voiding warranties when I get an actual benefit, but I just don't think it's worth it in this case... Under water my GTS idles at 35 and loads at 43c. That's damn cool enough as it is :eek:
 
leSLIe said:
i´ve seen lapped P3 Flip Chips, so i think that just might be possible
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P3s had a layer of material on top of the die protecting it, if I remember correctly. Athlon XPs on the other hand did not, which is why there were far more of those with cracked cores than there were P3s. I'm not sure if current GPUs have that protective layer. Either way, I doubt it would be worth it to lap a GPU. The temperature benefit probably wouldn't be that high, and it would void your warranty, which, given the fairly high failure rate of video cards, would not be a good thing at all unless you've got a ton of money to throw around.
 
Leave that card alone for the love of God do not lap your 8800 please....
 
hehehe, well i am saying i´m going to lap my GPU, all i was saying is if anyone has done it :)
 
The real challenge is the brave souls who pop off that monstrosity of an IHS off the 8800GTX or older GTS cards. I have no idea whatsoever why NVIDIA put that crappy thing on the core. Its got a thick gap under it with more crappy thermal paste. No wonder they got so hot.

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thebeephaha said:
The real challenge is the brave souls who pop off that monstrosity of an IHS off the 8800GTX or older GTS cards. I have no idea whatsoever why NVIDIA put that crappy thing on the core. Its got a thick gap under it with more crappy thermal paste. No wonder they got so hot.
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that really explains a lot...
 
Not exactly related... but still makes me fell a little sick inside.

64 X2 6000+ IHS removal gone wrong
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Aren't current gen gpus pretty damn flat anyway?

You wouldn't be able to lap it on a desk like a cpu, so you'd be pawing away at it with a bit of sandpaper attached to a block of some sort. You're bound to make the surface worse by doing this. It'd become quite convex.

Plus you'll reduce the height of the chip slightly meaning it'll get less contact with the heatsink (depending on the heatsink of course).

So, err, yeah, I wouldn't bother if I were you.


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Lapping the memory and mosfets might do something though. You could get them all dead flat relative to each other and slap on a beefy heatsink and then volt mod like crazy.
 
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