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SK7 came with circular grooves and machine marks
- Thread starter FatChance
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Lap it starting with 400 grit sandpaper.
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yeah, definitely needs some lapping
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Mine came that way too but for the price you can't complain too much. By far the best HS for the price. 
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after all of the good reviews thermalright got around here, i picked up a couple ax-7s for some quiet cooling in my stepfathers and brothers pc's. both of my "low quality" thermaltake volcano 7+s came with much smoother bases, i am not at all impressed with thermalright.
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Well, thermalrights are supposed to cool better, not look pretty.
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As said, it needs lapping. In my experience, about 1 out of 3 Thermalright heatsinks made in the past year leave the factory with extremely deep machining GROOVES.
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JDXNC said:
I agree and I did lap mine. What I was trying to say was that I would rather use a rough SK-7 than a thermaltake.
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LOL JDXNC misunderstood bk94si's comment, LOL!!
bk94s is correct.
Volcano sux ***... Thermalright crushes it.
bk94s is correct.
Volcano sux ***... Thermalright crushes it.
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All thermaltake sucks ***.....
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I never did say the V9 was a great cooler, nor better than Thermalright's products, but a lapped V9( lapping it REALLY helps it) is a LOT better than the stock AMD coolers, and a few other brands *cough* Cooler Master *cough*. It gets me by and by this time tomorrow I will be water cooled anyway
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well the volcano 7+ is a pure copper heatsink that weighs quite a bit, and if the whole bs line about an slk800/900 beating a volcano 7+ by 200~300mhz overclock were true, that would mean my old aiuhb 2100 would do an easy 2550-2650 on air at 1.74vcore, as my volcano 7+ does 2350 just fine at 1.74 vcore, with a load temp in the mid 40s. however, i would never suggest any other thermaltake hsf, as i like all copper designs. my point was just that with the two thermalright products i got (ax-7s) the quality was far INFERIOR to my thermaltake v7+s
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