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    Old Skool stuff - Lapping heatsinks and cpu's

    Discussion in 'Alienware 17 and M17x' started by jameslee3978, May 23, 2014.

  1. jameslee3978

    jameslee3978 Notebook Consultant

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    Back in the day when overclocking and watercooling involved making ALL your own stuff , Lapping CPU's and heat sinks was big, anyone try lapping their CPU GPU heat sinks for better thermal contact?
     
    jameslee3978, May 23, 2014
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    Rayleyne Notebook Consultant

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    My 6990m heatsink is lapped, It shaved 1-2C off max temps but that was about it, Idle remained the same.
     
    Rayleyne, May 24, 2014
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    Not that common anymore, new heatsinks are a lot better. The temperature drop that you may get out of that is simply not worth it.
     
    Alienware-L_Porras, May 28, 2014
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    Yea, i noticed after repasting my gpu and cpu, quite impressed, but the duel pipe CPU coolers are a bit lacking, at least i get to mod that, and build a custom laptop cooler,
     
    jameslee3978, May 28, 2014
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