Originally posted by Peen
Liquid3d , what was the finest grit sandpaper you used?i was thinking of lapping it first with 600grit then to 2000 grit that i have laying around. with that much of a drop in temps, im going to do what you did tommorow!
I started with 400, and went to 600. Do you really want to see pic's? It's a pain in the butt, but i could throw in the other 2.4C and take pic's for ya. Maybe I should just lap the other one I have as well? The second one has the warranty, as it's a boxed version, alhtough it doesn't seem to OC as stable? It'll do the same speeds (3696MHz), same voltage, (1.550V) but for some reason I got a lot more memory errors at high FSB when benchmarking it?

Whe you lap the CPU, be really careful how you hold it. Dont do it on the motherboard, because the copper powder might get into some fine circuitry cause a short. I held it really carefull as not to bend the pins, and sanded away cleaning with alcohol every few seconds or so.

By the way the Epox 4PCA3+ doen't have the 3:2 memory divider? Anyone know why? They don't have any BIOS updates either, except one which addresses one issue; crackling sound in the sound system?