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So what do you lapping boys think of this?

trt740

trt740

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Front Page http://www.prolimatech.com/index.html
Lapping Warning!
Prolimatech does not condone any type of lapping done to the CPU or to heatsink base. Every Prolimatech's heatsink base is designed on a pin-point scale of how the base is to be flat and/or curved where it's needed to be. We have programed our machines to machine the surface in a very calculated way. Any after-manufacture lapping or modding done to the base will alter the design, hence negating its performance factor as well as its warranty.
 
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True or not, it protects them from people messing up their coolers by lapping them.
 
Very few HSF manufacturers will recommend lapping. In fact, it usually voids the warranty. I can tell you from experience, that Prolimatech has a very good reason for this. You can see that it is slightly curved on purpose, and the base is polished better than any heatsink than I've ever seen.
 
Yeah, I'm with Paulieg since, I believe in some reviews of the cooler itself, they say that because of the curve that there is no way you can lap it without just screwing the cooler up all together.
 
With a Mega they milled the base for the grooves, it adds surface area for the TIM to transfer the heat better. When they say it can lessen the performance....meh IDK, but I aint doing it to mine and I got mine for free;)
 
sneekypeet said:
With a Mega they milled the base for the grooves, it adds surface area for the TIM to transfer the heat better. When they say it can lessen the performance....meh IDK, but I aint doing it to mine and I got mine for free;)
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The thermalright also says this about the TRUE and since the same team designed both why do they get questioned. They also have a slightly milled base with a bump and the new trues base is very polished?

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trt740 said:
Front Page http://www.prolimatech.com/index.html
Lapping Warning!
Prolimatech does not condone any type of lapping done to the CPU or to heatsink base. Every Prolimatech's heatsink base is designed on a pin-point scale of how the base is to be flat and/or curved where it's needed to be. We have programed our machines to machine the surface in a very calculated way. Any after-manufacture lapping or modding done to the base will alter the design, hence negating its performance factor as well as its warranty.
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This is such a dumb statement that I will try my best to lap my heatsink(not same brand) over the weekend:rockout:
 
extrasalty said:
This is such a dumb statement that I will try my best to lap my heatsink(not same brand) over the weekend:rockout:
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hey don't kill the messenger
 
Oh no, of course:slap:
 
I say lap it then and see what happens. Granted its an expensive trial, but about the only way you will know for sure.

Also never had a true in my hands, but I do know everyone and their pet monkey lapped the trues. the bases do look very similar. TRY IT/ DO IT!!!!one!!!1!
 
I never did understand the warranty for a heatsink.. as long as all the parts are in the box what could possibly go wrong with them..

Anyways I did lap my megahalem and I,m glad i did It was very concave and I wish I had a camera when I did it because of the way it was machined... My temps are very good at 3990 mhz but then again I,m not running a real high Vcore either. I took my time and lapped it right. Its flat now. :rockout:

But I always say dont lap just for the hell of it. If its not flat then go for it but at least check it first.
 
Crazybc said:
I never did understand the warranty for a heatsink.. as long as all the parts are in the box what could possibly go wrong with them..

Anyways I did lap my megahalem and I,m glad i did It was very concave and I wish I had a camera when I did it because of the way it was machined... My temps are very good at 3990 mhz but then again I,m not running a real high Vcore either. I took my time and lapped it right. Its flat now. :rockout:

But I always say dont lap just for the hell of it. If its not flat then go for it but at least check it first.
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Lapping Warning!
Prolimatech does not condone any type of lapping done to the CPU or to heatsink base. Every Prolimatech's heatsink base is designed on a pin-point scale of how the base is to be flat and/or curved where it's needed to be. We have programed our machines to machine the surface in a very calculated way. Any after-manufacture lapping or modding done to the base will alter the design, hence negating its performance factor as well as its warranty.

what about this? If you lap it and it was intended to be curved?
 
why would I want a curved heatsink on a flat cpu Thats another thing I dont get . Anyways I,m happy with my temps at around mid 40,s right now according to Realtemp and thats folding also.


and why do I care about a warranty on my heatsink what would I possibly ever return it for.. They can say whatever they want about warranty for me its a moot point but their is a risk to lapping you can get it very wrong if you dont do it right.
 
Lol, in my opinion, If anyone laps any heatsync/cpu then it gose without saying that the warrenty will be void.
 
So you think that the number one I7 cpu cooling company, who spent thousands of dollars developing a heat sink that could match or surpass a TRUE just neglected to make the base flat? And that a bunch of geeks with sand paper corrected a developmental error that they created on both the TRUE and the MEG? Hum I don't think so but that's just me. I think that with all the outcry that the TRUE wasn't flat, since these same engineers developed that too, they might have noticed and tested this theory and apparently it made little difference or they would have simply pulled out the sand paper. Remember they have flat out stated this is a TRUE with any and all development improvements they could think of added, but they missed the base?
 
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yep I do beleive ,mistakes are made and variables are allowed as the cutting tools wear down and I beleive they can be corrected with lapping if you dont believe me go google it yourself.. But then your minds made up so thats a moot point too.. If the heatsink was flat I would have left it alone if it alone. It wasn't so I fixed it myself
 
Crazybc said:
yep i do beleive ,mistakes are made and variables are allowed as the cutting tools wear down and I beleive they can be corrected with lapping if you dont beleive me go google it yourself.. But then your minds made up so thats a moot point too.. If the heatsink was flat i would h
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I think your wrong and I don't need to google this topic it's been debated for years with the TRUE and trust me if Thermalright had thought it made a difference there would have been a TRUE flat model or lapped model. Since the guys at Prolimatech invented and developed the first TRUE when they worked at Thermalright. I think they might have noticed when they made the MEG, and implemented that design change, but you guessed it they didn't. Gee I wonder why? Maybe they own stock in lapping kits. :D
 
your entititled tp your opinion and and I,m to mine.. but of course you wouldn,t be overclocking that cpu would you because Intel designs their chips to run at stock speed and you couldn't possibly know more then Intel. Oh and overclocking voids your warranty
 
Crazybc said:
your entititled tp your opinion and and I,m to mine.. but of course you wouldnt be overclocking because Intel designs their chips to run at stock speed and you couldn't possibly know more then Intel.
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no intel knows exactly what their doing and that's keeping the price down by not selling a 90.00 heat sink in their cpu kits and keeping the profit margin up.
 
Crazybc is right about the cutting tools that milling metal inevitably wears tools out fairly quickly. I learned about it in studying gun smithing. Gun smithing there is a great deal more at stake than a cheap manufactured heatsink from a chinese factory. China doesn't even make medical cutting tools right because they use the cheap grade metal. The best medical tools come from Germany and the USA.


I think it doesn't make a huge difference that its not level but the amount of damage from lapping that a uneducated end user could do would make them produced such statements. Its not like they could say, "We don't trust our customer's lapping skills so don't even start to do it or your warranty is out the window!".
 
trt740 said:
I think your wrong and I don't need to google this topic it's been debated for years with the TRUE and trust me if Thermalright had thought it made a difference there would have been a TRUE flat model or lapped model. Since the guys at Prolimatech invented and developed the first TRUE when they worked at Thermalright. I think they might have noticed when they made the MEG, and implemented that design change, but you guessed it they didn't. Gee I wonder why? Maybe they own stock in lapping kits. :D
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Crazybc said:
your entititled tp your opinion and and I,m to mine.. but of course you wouldn,t be overclocking that cpu would you because Intel designs their chips to run at stock speed and you couldn't possibly know more then Intel.
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Prolimatech Megahalems

1.What happens when the best engineers from Thermalright decide that it's time to leave a stagnant company who refuses their ideas? They gather their intellect and begin Prolimatech. Unlike other companies that have formed from the staff of another, Prolimatech didn't decide to leave their former home and release another mundane mainstream product. The Prolimatech Megahalems offers everything former projects (like the Thermalright Ultra-120 eXtreme) featured, but then adds new engineering where there were improvements needed.


2.Prolimatech does not condone any type of lapping done to the CPU or to heatsink base. Every Prolimatech's heatsink base is designed on a pin-point scale of how the base is to be flat and/or curved where it's needed to be. We have programed our machines to machine the surface in a very calculated way. Any after-manufacture lapping or modding done to the base will alter the design, hence negating its performance factor as well as its warranty.


Just putting the two statements next to each other to get the full effect of what they are saying.
 
hey trt, he isnt listening.
 
if I was listening I wouldnt be overclocking my cpu or GPU either because alot of people will tell me that voids my warranty also.. I bought it and paid for it so I,ll do what I think is best for my situation.. Warrantys be damned.. :toast:
 
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