Retail Q9650 Overclocking Thread

[Davit]

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.

[deachus]

I was told that the base of the True's are concave so I lapped mine and got much better temps. I have recently retired my Q9650 to my Media Server and have the True running on a 920 D0. Temps are great. Try lapping your True. By the impressions on your CPU and True in looks like it is concave, as it's making contact in the center and not on the sides.