lapped my IHS on a Q6600 (pics and results)

graysky · Jun 11, 2007, 06:59 PM

Well, after lapping my HS, I've had this nagging little voice in my head telling me to do the same from the CPU. I did the job with 800 grit sandpaper. Initially, I told myself I'd just buff what's there right now just to see if it's level. After about 30 laps in one direction and 30 in the other direction I discovered I had quite a concave IHS. So I just kept at it. Two 9x11 pieces of 800 grit later paper later I was left with a darn flat layer of copper looking back at me. I finished the job and put a mild shine on it with a sheet of 1000 grit I got from the local auto parts store just for the f*ck of it.

Here are a few pics and the temp. results I got from lapping both my CPU and HS. I would recommend that anyone wanting the best $20 decrease in temps should consider lapping both the CPU and HS.

Hardware details: Q6600 @ 9x333 and vcore of 1.2625V in the BIOS, P5B Deluxe (vdroop modded) cooled w/ an Ultra-120 Extreme (lapped) with Scythe/s-flex SFF21F 1600RPM fan, in a P182 case:

Temp results:

Each temp. point represents an average of data collected over approx. 1 h time period during the 2nd pass of a 2-pass x264 encode of a 720x480 DVD source using a high quality video profile. Data points were logged by Speedfan every 3-4 seconds over this time period. The average CPU usage was >99 % on all 4 cores throughout the experiments. Also room temp was between 20-22 °C.

This is my preferred setup: 8x10 piece of glass on a flat counter top. You can see I cut the sandpaper into a thin strip (about 2-3x the width of the CPU) and attached it to the glass with some tape. The glass is in turn tapped down to the counter top to keep everything immobilized. You'll want to moisten the sandpaper with some mildly soapy water (like 1 drop of dish soap in 1 liter of water), then blot it until you have no pools of water. Remember, if you get water into your chip you're sunk. Then simple hold the chip and gently move it front-to-back. I don't recommend doing circles since they tend to give uneven results. The copper color on the sandpaper is material I just removed from the IHS on the chip.

Remember, you're after a flat chip here so don't push down on it as you lap: let the weight of your hands do it without extra pressure and go slowly so you don't use uneven pressure. After about 30 laps front-to-back, I gently blotted off the chip with a moist paper towel to remove the metal particles I just sanded off, then rotated it 90 degrees and repeated 30 laps front-to-back. Then you'll want to clean off the sand paper (add more water, then blot it damp and repeat). I'd recommend changing the sand paper frequently since it's really doing the work for you. That's basically it. You can start with 400 grit or so and lap until you can't see variations in the surface of the chip (no silver color is often a good indication that you're flat), move up to 600 or 800, then finish off with 1000 or 1200. I did mine entirely with 800 and 1000, it just takes longer with finer grits. Remember, the key is FLAT, not shiny. I would recommend that you do NOT polish the chip with a metal polish since you'll leave behind a residue that will hurt your heat transfer.

You can test the flatness at any point during the lapping process by carefully placing a razor blade across the surface of he chip and looking at the area where the razor meets the chip. Now position your eye so that you're level with the chip and pointing at a light source (a lamp will do nicely). Do you see any light coming though? If so, keep at it. Another test you can do is to take a black sharpie marker and make about 9 dots in a 3x3 grid on the surface of the IHS. Lap about 5 times, rotate, and do 5 more. Now look at the dots... did they wear off evenly? If not, keep at it. You can also simply draw an "X" from corner to corner on the chip and do this as well. Again, you'll looking for even wear.

After about 5 minutes of lapping in each direction with 800 grit. You can see how the nickel plating has come off around the edges first which shows you just how concave this thing really was:

After more lapping most of the nickel plating has been removed expect in the really low areas (the camera flash fired so close to the chip makes all the scratches show up much more so than they do under normal light):

Switched to 1000 grit, here's the result:

Another angle shows the nice dull reflection, still very so slightly concave at the extreme edges, but good enough for me:

I would recommend that anyone wanting the best $20 decrease in temps should consider lapping both the CPU and HS.

Oh, I also thought I'd mention that before I lapped the chip, I had a pretty big difference in core temps when loading with prime95 or 2x orthos: up to 6 degrees C (sorry I don't have a screenshot of this). Lapping the chip REALLY evened-them-out as you can see from the coretemp numbers after the IHS and base of the heatsink were lapped (stressed using prime95 v25.3):

The table I showed above was not based on prime95 or orthos, it was based on x264.exe which is a video encoder. It is good at using all 4 cores, but not as efficient as prime95/orthos which explains the differences in temps from that table.

freaksavior · Jun 11, 2007, 07:03 PM

very nice info, love the way you put it together

but, might i suffest you do it oncemore but use 2000 and it will be the most shiny peice of metal in your house

how long did it take you?

d44ve · Jun 11, 2007, 07:04 PM

That is still scary with that many scratches still in it

graysky · Jun 11, 2007, 07:31 PM

@freaksavior - Actually took about 2 hours totally, but I kept getting interrupted.
@d44ve - I think the main thing is flatness and not such much fine scratches... the AS5 will fit them.

graysky · Aug 6, 2007, 08:33 PM

I just edited/updated the first post of the thread with a few more pics and a brief description of how I lapped the chip for anyone interested.

kenjin · Aug 7, 2007, 12:43 AM

lol i see you posting this every where, saw the same post on toms hardware guide forum and pcper.com

but good job on lapping it awesome result. i dont mind do my HS but i dont got the guts to do my CPU

graysky · Aug 7, 2007, 12:52 AM

Sure you do dude.. it's actually much easier than the HS. Once you start doing it, you'll have no problem finishing it. I was the same way you were before I just took the plunge and did it.

Mussels · Aug 7, 2007, 01:34 AM

i'm gunna have to go find me some sandpaper today... local stores only sell 800 grit at best, i want upto 2000 for this stuff

Chewy · Aug 7, 2007, 01:37 AM

go to an automotive shop or body shop. I found 1200grit at a hardware store but that was thier highest..

Beertintedgoggles · Aug 7, 2007, 02:00 AM

The AutoZone down the street from me carries up to 2000 grit, but if you can stand the wait it's loads cheaper to buy online. The only problem with lapping is once you start, you can't stop. I've lapped my cpu, chipset, gpu heatsinks on my current rig. I've lapped old gup heatsinks and chopped them up to cool my old A7N8X-E Deluxe MB. My old SI-97 is lapped in my gf's computer. My bro's and parents' cpu heatsinks are lapped due to me. Hell, I've even lapped the reverse side of an old 100 Mexican peso (have no idea where it came from... besides Mexico). I like my metal to be flat and shiny.

Mussels · Aug 7, 2007, 08:16 AM

Heres a question Graysky, since you already did this -

How many sheets of sandpaper did you go through, in the varying sizes?

EG, one sheet of 400, then one of 800, then two of 1200, etc - just curious as to the amounts i should buy (i'm going to do a 775 CPU and heatsink, so your usage should match mine)

lemonadesoda · Aug 7, 2007, 09:49 AM

At all lappers:

1./ Thin oil, or

2./ water+soap ?

FOXCONN1115 · Aug 7, 2007, 11:04 AM

nice work, and a huge drop in temps, although still high for my liking

Tatty_One · Aug 7, 2007, 11:08 AM

Damn, this has even got me think about taking the plunge! This might be a job for the weekend if I can get some ultra fine paper, if not I will superglue a handful of salt to some cardboard and try that.

FOXCONN1115 · Aug 7, 2007, 11:26 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Tatty_One

Damn, this has even got me think about taking the plunge! This might be a job for the weekend if I can get some ultra fine paper, if not I will superglue a handful of salt to some cardboard and try that.

LMAO

Tatty_One · Aug 7, 2007, 06:13 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by FOXCONN1115

LMAO

mas0n · Aug 15, 2007, 04:41 AM

I found a small woodworking shop in Dallas today that sells every increment from 40 to 12,000 grit in single sheets

graysky · Aug 15, 2007, 08:01 AM

Anything over 1000 is a waste of $$$

Mussels · Aug 15, 2007, 10:46 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by mas0n

I found a small woodworking shop in Dallas today that sells every increment from 40 to 12,000 grit in single sheets

i so hate you right now

Quote:

Originally Posted by graysky

Anything over 1000 is a waste of $$$

1200 and 2000 are good if you really want a fine polish, it depends the level you're at. I have 1200 for my best, and its still not 'mirror smooth' for those fanatics amongst us.

Tatty_One · Aug 15, 2007, 11:51 AM

Managed to find a 5 sheet pack of 1200.....£2.79....that will do for me, a nice job for the weekend when I install my new CPU and PSU

Although I am only doing the heatsink as I will probably be selling my new 6850 at Christmas so aint gonna do that....it would scare most flea bayers off!

InnocentCriminal · Aug 15, 2007, 01:01 PM

Arrrh good stuff Graysky! Something I didn't give much thought, but I'll 'ave ago once I'm ready to WC my stuff!

tigger · Aug 15, 2007, 01:21 PM

i did this to my 6300 ages ago,a word of warning tho',this does void the warranty.

nflesher87 · Aug 15, 2007, 01:37 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by tigger69

i did this to my 6300 ages ago,a word of warning tho',this does void the warranty.

come to think of it, he probably SHOULD have mentioned that in the first post, as it's common knowledge to many of us, yet some still may have no idea...
along with voiding the warranty, lapping can greatly decrease resale value so be careful there as well if you like to sell your old parts to get credit towards new ones!

also in response to people's comments about wasting money and what not on certain grit sandpaper, I'm not too sure what you're talking about as my local auto store sells up to 2000 grit but at all the same price, all 3M sandpaper and I believe it was $.6# a sheet...which is definitely affordable to me, they were almost 8.5 by 11 size but not quite

Tatty_One · Aug 15, 2007, 02:35 PM

Yup, thats why I am just doing my heatsink.

average.. · Aug 22, 2007, 05:24 PM

i would give it a go if it did not take me the best part of an hour to attach my freezer64 pro. im not going thru that again, lol
i was certain i cracked the cpu die, the mother bored disconnected some capcitors.. the shock of my life when it actually powerd up.. maybe i will do my gpu's heatsink thats just a couple push clips.. oh and my MB's heat sink... will make a lapper out of me yet.. ;-)

Jun 11, 2007, 06:59 PM	#1
graysky Join Date: Jun 2007 Posts: 158 (0.07/day) Thanks: 0 Thanked 75 Times in 21 Posts System Specs	lapped my IHS on a Q6600 (pics and results) Well, after lapping my HS, I've had this nagging little voice in my head telling me to do the same from the CPU. I did the job with 800 grit sandpaper. Initially, I told myself I'd just buff what's there right now just to see if it's level. After about 30 laps in one direction and 30 in the other direction I discovered I had quite a concave IHS. So I just kept at it. Two 9x11 pieces of 800 grit later paper later I was left with a darn flat layer of copper looking back at me. I finished the job and put a mild shine on it with a sheet of 1000 grit I got from the local auto parts store just for the fck of it. Here are a few pics and the temp. results I got from lapping both my CPU and HS. I would recommend that anyone wanting the best $20 decrease in temps should consider lapping both the CPU and HS. Hardware details: Q6600 @ 9x333 and vcore of 1.2625V in the BIOS, P5B Deluxe (vdroop modded) cooled w/ an Ultra-120 Extreme (lapped) with Scythe/s-flex SFF21F 1600RPM fan, in a P182 case: Temp results: Each temp. point represents an average of data collected over approx. 1 h time period during the 2nd pass of a 2-pass x264 encode of a 720x480 DVD source using a high quality video profile. Data points were logged by Speedfan every 3-4 seconds over this time period. The average CPU usage was >99 % on all 4 cores throughout the experiments. Also room temp was between 20-22 °C. This is my preferred setup: 8x10 piece of glass on a flat counter top. You can see I cut the sandpaper into a thin strip (about 2-3x the width of the CPU) and attached it to the glass with some tape. The glass is in turn tapped down to the counter top to keep everything immobilized. You'll want to moisten the sandpaper with some mildly soapy water (like 1 drop of dish soap in 1 liter of water), then blot it until you have no pools of water. Remember, if you get water into your chip you're sunk. Then simple hold the chip and gently move it front-to-back. I don't recommend doing circles since they tend to give uneven results. The copper color on the sandpaper is material I just removed from the IHS on the chip. Remember, you're after a flat chip here so don't push down on it as you lap: let the weight of your hands do it without extra pressure and go slowly so you don't use uneven pressure. After about 30 laps front-to-back, I gently blotted off the chip with a moist paper towel to remove the metal particles I just sanded off, then rotated it 90 degrees and repeated 30 laps front-to-back. Then you'll want to clean off the sand paper (add more water, then blot it damp and repeat). I'd recommend changing the sand paper frequently since it's really doing the work for you. That's basically it. You can start with 400 grit or so and lap until you can't see variations in the surface of the chip (no silver color is often a good indication that you're flat), move up to 600 or 800, then finish off with 1000 or 1200. I did mine entirely with 800 and 1000, it just takes longer with finer grits. Remember, the key is FLAT, not shiny. I would recommend that you do NOT polish the chip with a metal polish since you'll leave behind a residue that will hurt your heat transfer. You can test the flatness at any point during the lapping process by carefully placing a razor blade across the surface of he chip and looking at the area where the razor meets the chip. Now position your eye so that you're level with the chip and pointing at a light source (a lamp will do nicely). Do you see any light coming though? If so, keep at it. Another test you can do is to take a black sharpie marker and make about 9 dots in a 3x3 grid on the surface of the IHS. Lap about 5 times, rotate, and do 5 more. Now look at the dots... did they wear off evenly? If not, keep at it. You can also simply draw an "X" from corner to corner on the chip and do this as well. Again, you'll looking for even wear. After about 5 minutes of lapping in each direction with 800 grit. You can see how the nickel plating has come off around the edges first which shows you just how concave this thing really was: After more lapping most of the nickel plating has been removed expect in the really low areas (the camera flash fired so close to the chip makes all the scratches show up much more so than they do under normal light): Switched to 1000 grit, here's the result: Another angle shows the nice dull reflection, still very so slightly concave at the extreme edges, but good enough for me: I would recommend that anyone wanting the best $20 decrease in temps should consider lapping both the CPU and HS. Oh, I also thought I'd mention that before I lapped the chip, I had a pretty big difference in core temps when loading with prime95 or 2x orthos: up to 6 degrees C (sorry I don't have a screenshot of this). Lapping the chip REALLY evened-them-out as you can see from the coretemp numbers after the IHS and base of the heatsink were lapped (stressed using prime95 v25.3): The table I showed above was not based on prime95 or orthos, it was based on x264.exe which is a video encoder. It is good at using all 4 cores, but not as efficient as prime95/orthos which explains the differences in temps from that table. __________________ CPU-Z validation sig pics temporarily blocked Last edited by graysky; Aug 6, 2007 at 08:27 PM.*

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graysky Join Date: Jun 2007 Posts: 158 (0.07/day) Thanks: 0 Thanked 75 Times in 21 Posts System Specs	@freaksavior - Actually took about 2 hours totally, but I kept getting interrupted. @d44ve - I think the main thing is flatness and not such much fine scratches... the AS5 will fit them. __________________ CPU-Z validation sig pics temporarily blocked

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graysky Join Date: Jun 2007 Posts: 158 (0.07/day) Thanks: 0 Thanked 75 Times in 21 Posts System Specs	I just edited/updated the first post of the thread with a few more pics and a brief description of how I lapped the chip for anyone interested. __________________ CPU-Z validation sig pics temporarily blocked

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kenjin Join Date: Nov 2005 Posts: 183 (0.07/day) Thanks: 20 Thanked 1 Time in 1 Post System Specs	lol i see you posting this every where, saw the same post on toms hardware guide forum and pcper.com but good job on lapping it awesome result. i dont mind do my HS but i dont got the guts to do my CPU

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graysky Join Date: Jun 2007 Posts: 158 (0.07/day) Thanks: 0 Thanked 75 Times in 21 Posts System Specs	Sure you do dude.. it's actually much easier than the HS. Once you start doing it, you'll have no problem finishing it. I was the same way you were before I just took the plunge and did it. __________________ CPU-Z validation sig pics temporarily blocked

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Beertintedgoggles Join Date: Nov 2005 Posts: 692 (0.25/day) Thanks: 63 Thanked 194 Times in 144 Posts System Specs	The AutoZone down the street from me carries up to 2000 grit, but if you can stand the wait it's loads cheaper to buy online. The only problem with lapping is once you start, you can't stop. I've lapped my cpu, chipset, gpu heatsinks on my current rig. I've lapped old gup heatsinks and chopped them up to cool my old A7N8X-E Deluxe MB. My old SI-97 is lapped in my gf's computer. My bro's and parents' cpu heatsinks are lapped due to me. Hell, I've even lapped the reverse side of an old 100 Mexican peso (have no idea where it came from... besides Mexico). I like my metal to be flat and shiny. Last edited by Beertintedgoggles; Aug 23, 2007 at 02:48 AM.

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Aug 7, 2007, 08:16 AM	#11
Mussels Doctor Moderator Join Date: Oct 2004 Location: Bendigo, Australia (NOT THE USA) Posts: 34,564 (10.96/day) Thanks: 3,700 Thanked 8,698 Times in 6,395 Posts System Specs	Heres a question Graysky, since you already did this - How many sheets of sandpaper did you go through, in the varying sizes? EG, one sheet of 400, then one of 800, then two of 1200, etc - just curious as to the amounts i should buy (i'm going to do a 775 CPU and heatsink, so your usage should match mine) __________________ Edumacational thread about PC Audio My external HDD's.5x samsung 1TB + 2x Seagate 1.5TB = 8 TB external storage 32 Bit OS vs 64 bit OS information How to get hardware accelerated H264 playback (DXVA) Netbook Owners United!

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mas0n Join Date: May 2007 Location: dallas Posts: 88 (0.04/day) Thanks: 1 Thanked 9 Times in 8 Posts System Specs	I found a small woodworking shop in Dallas today that sells every increment from 40 to 12,000 grit in single sheets

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Motherboard:	DFI DK X38-T2RSB
Cooling:	PA120.3, Apogee GT, Swiftech MCP655-B
Memory:	4GB Patriot 4-4-4-12 @425MHz
Video Card:	HD4870 @ 820/1100
Hard Disk:	2x74GB \| 2x400GB \| JBOD 1.8TB
CRT/LCD Model:	Samsung 225BW
Case:	Antec P180B
PSU:	PC Power & Cooling 610W Silencer

Aug 15, 2007, 08:01 AM	#18
graysky Join Date: Jun 2007 Posts: 158 (0.07/day) Thanks: 0 Thanked 75 Times in 21 Posts System Specs	Anything over 1000 is a waste of $$$ __________________ CPU-Z validation sig pics temporarily blocked

Aug 15, 2007, 11:51 AM	#20
Tatty_One Senior(Citizen)Moderator Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Worcestershire, UK Posts: 12,751 (4.75/day) Thanks: 1,094 Thanked 1,937 Times in 1,438 Posts System Specs	Managed to find a 5 sheet pack of 1200.....£2.79....that will do for me, a nice job for the weekend when I install my new CPU and PSU Although I am only doing the heatsink as I will probably be selling my new 6850 at Christmas so aint gonna do that....it would scare most flea bayers off! __________________

Aug 15, 2007, 01:01 PM	#21
InnocentCriminal Resident Grammar Amender Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: 'ereyfurd, UK Posts: 5,471 (1.81/day) Thanks: 198 Thanked 855 Times in 667 Posts System Specs	Arrrh good stuff Graysky! Something I didn't give much thought, but I'll 'ave ago once I'm ready to WC my stuff! __________________ *Post count isn't* an intelligence meter. During the rectification of the Vuldronaii the Traveler came as a large, moving Torb. Then, during the third reconciliation of the last of the Meketrex supplicants they chose a new form for him—that of a giant Sloar! Many Shubs and Zuuls knew what it was to be roasted in the depths of the Sloar that day, I can tell you. Musek*: "InnocentCriminal - a Chuck Norris of the TPU - knows what you are about to type and he WILL type it faster than you."*

System Name:	BeeR 6
Processor:	Intel Core i7 3770K
Motherboard:	ASUS Maximus Gene V
Cooling:	Corsair H100i
Memory:	8GB Samsung Green 1600MHz DDR3
Video Card:	2GB XFX HD6950 (PCIe)*
Hard Disk:	256GB Samsung 840 Pro SSD
CRT/LCD Model:	20.1" Viewsonic VX2025WM/32" Vistron HDTV
Case:	Fractal Design Arc Mini
PSU:	Corsair HX750W
Software:	64bit Microsoft Windows 7 Ultimate
Benchmarks:	* flashed to 6970.

Aug 15, 2007, 01:21 PM	#22
tigger I'm the only one Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: HU5 1LL Posts: 7,215 (2.75/day) Thanks: 475 Thanked 951 Times in 780 Posts System Specs	i did this to my 6300 ages ago,a word of warning tho',this does void the warranty. __________________ http://img.techpowerup.org/110324/v6351cpuzvalj197.jpg ]Monster E6300 oc http://www.techpowerup.com/gallery/2163.html

System Name:	poor little craptop (HP Pavillion G6)
Processor:	AMD E2-3000M 1.8ghz
Motherboard:	3566 21.3A
Cooling:	stock
Memory:	ADATA 4gb 1333mhz SODIMM
Video Card:	ATI Radeon HD 6380G 512MB
Hard Disk:	Seagate ST950032 5AS 500GB sata
Optical Drive:	HP 208BB DVD R/CDRW sata
CRT/LCD Model:	15.6" 1366x768 widescreen+17" 1440x900 widescreen
Case:	hp laptop
Sound Card:	onboard
Software:	windows 7 home premium x64 genuine (for once)

System Name:	Chameleon
Processor:	i7 920 D0 B Batch
Motherboard:	eVGA E-757 X58 SLI
Cooling:	Laing D5 Vario + Swiftech MCR320 + D-Tek Fuzion + 3x120mmx38mm Panaflo
Memory:	G.Skill 3x2GB DDR3 1333MHz
Video Card:	HIS HD6870
Hard Disk:	3x 320GB 7200.10 16MB RAID 0
CRT/LCD Model:	2x Dell Ultrasharp 2208WFP TFT @ 3360x1050
Case:	Personally-Modded Rocketfish
PSU:	Corsair HX1000 Modular

Aug 15, 2007, 02:35 PM	#24
Tatty_One Senior(Citizen)Moderator Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Worcestershire, UK Posts: 12,751 (4.75/day) Thanks: 1,094 Thanked 1,937 Times in 1,438 Posts System Specs	Yup, thats why I am just doing my heatsink. __________________

Aug 22, 2007, 05:24 PM	#25
average.. Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: London Posts: 18 (0.01/day) Thanks: 10 Thanked 2 Times in 2 Posts System Specs	i would give it a go if it did not take me the best part of an hour to attach my freezer64 pro. im not going thru that again, lol i was certain i cracked the cpu die, the mother bored disconnected some capcitors.. the shock of my life when it actually powerd up.. maybe i will do my gpu's heatsink thats just a couple push clips.. oh and my MB's heat sink... will make a lapper out of me yet.. ;-) __________________