Quote Originally Posted by CryptiK View Post
You can see in the following 2 pics the contact was originally quite bad. I did a quick lap job on the True (3rd pic) and it has much improved contact and temps. I'll finish it off when I get some finer grade sandpaper.

Congrats on the 4.4 stable, very nice work.

CPU bad contact



True Cu bad contact


WOW. That is exactly how mine looks... I tried the drop in the middle method, spread even method nothing worked... Nice to know that I am not entirely crazy. I will lap my 9650 asap, see what I can get out of it. Temp drop would be a pleasant bonus, I would even settle for temp stability between the cores lol. I have read mixed reviews about lapping the heat-killer, so I will let it be... Funny don't want to ruin a $90 waterblock, instead I am taking a sandpaper to $349(what I paid for it) CPU....

Thank you for the kind words as well!
There will be more shenanigans to come.