In my experience, even though not perfect, CPU's are a lot flatter than heatsinks/blocks. Also as you said, a block is a lot cheaper than a Q9650. If I were you, I'd try lapping the block at least a small amount, before lapping the cpu.Originally Posted by Davit
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.
Congrats on the great cpu, very nice overclock.I got a lot of inspiration from all you amazing chaps here and am so excited to tell you that I got my dream Q9650
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I have improved watercooling in the works as I just know that this chip has plenty more to give and which I am ready to receive
4.4GHz at 1.328v actual in CPU-Z feels so good and just rocks - I am so happy
Thanks so much to you all for all your continued contributions here and I wanted to give this back
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