Lapped my Ultra-120 eX (pics and results)

[Spawn-Inc]

oh well i'm not 100% sure but all the things i read about doing it went up to 2000 i went 500, 1000, 2000 (thats all i had) then polishing compound. also i didn't have the flattest os surfaces (i did it on a old cpu)

 

[||Console||]

No need for a mirror as stated above , even mroe so mirror is worse temps than what he has now .

@ guy who said somthign about a dremel Flat is more important than Shiny using a dremel would destory the hsf .

 

[Spawn-Inc]

i used a dremel to polish mine to a mirror finish. but i bet you its not flat anymore. so when and if i do this to a good working computer i will use glass and just go up to 1000.

 

[Susquehannock]

oh well i'm not 100% sure but all the things i read about doing it went up to 2000 i went 500, 1000, 2000 (thats all i had) then polishing compound. also i didn't have the flattest os surfaces (i did it on a old cpu)

Not bad, but you can still see gouges from the heavier grits through the mirrored finish.

Practice makes perfect.

 

[graysky]

I posted this over in the q6600 lapping thread, but I wanted to put it here too: Mtotho just finished lapping his Q6600 and HS and was met with a crazy reduction in temp from 74 °C down to 47 °C on his hottest core under load. This result was from a stock setting of 9x266. He has since clocked up to 9x333 and found temps around 55-55-50-50 using a vcore around 1.22-1.26 as read in CPU-Z. Just wanted to share another successful result on a quad.