Proper Quadcore water block mounting technique

[Polizei]

Im not positive, but I think Ive seen a picture saying this is how the cores are laid out in a quad core Intel CPU. Im not sure about the numbers other than 3 was on the end.

[redcorn]

Im not positive, but I think Ive seen a picture saying this is how the cores are laid out in a quad core Intel CPU. Im not sure about the numbers other than 3 was on the end.

I knew putting up a grid on the CPU would screw people up. The grid does not signify where the cores are or where the heat spreaders are. The grid merely shows where to put pressure to influence temp changes to each specific core. You do this by tightening the screw that is closest to the square or the core you want to cool down or loosen the screw closest to the core you want to raise in temp. You simply cannot tighten every screw and hope they will be equal this doesnt work due to the limitations of the cpu IHS shape and the shape of the cpu block base. You have to loosen one inorder to balance the needs of the other cores. Its very transitional all Im saying is putting pressure on square one affects the C1 and putting pressure on square 3 puts more pressure on C3.

Your pic of the heat spreader is exactly like my pic except its not in squares. If you were to mount the block on and just tightened all the screws you would still hit all four heat spreaders of each core due to the fact that its in the middle of the cpu heat sink. However by applying specific pressure in each square I mapped you will get more of an even pressure and can fine tune it. Im not disagreeing with your pic infact it corresponds to what I mapped just flip that pic so the pin one is in the upper left hand corner. I can tell you that by balancing pressure in all four squares of the map your overall cpu temp will be down and each core will have the same temp. YOu can do this by using the core temp beta program and adjusting your tension screws.

I found that 1 in 8 mounts randomly did I get the block to sit on the cpu right and the temps on all four cores 1C from each other if not the same. On my random mounts all I did was lower the cpu block straight down and tighten each screw till they couldnt be tightened in a star pattern. By doing the method outlined in conjuction with using core temp beta you can find which corners to tighten or loosen to give all cores the same pressure on each and every mount no guessing. It does require you to reboot alot since you never want to adjust those screws with the system on.