Love the Fuzion block!

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Thanks to the forums I was able to lap my QX6700 using 120,320,400,600,800,1000,1200 somewhere after 800 I lost three finger nails and four of my finger tips lost enough skin to start bleeding. However the smile I saw in my reflection made it worth it. starting out lapping the cpu I noticed it was as wavy as a ruffles potato chip, its no wonder my prior heat sink the Koolance 305 water block had no chance of cooling it.
During the Fuzion block install, I noticed that the Fuzion block would bow the motherboard with only 5 full turns of the nuts on each post, it really does not take much force to bow the motherboard with their springs. The bowing caused the heat sinks to seperate away from the little voltage regulator chips surrounding cpu. I wonder if the Swiftech Challange guys on the first night did this same thing and caused the board to overheat. Now I dont know if the bowing of the Fuzion base which is convex caused the bowing of the motherboard or the actual spring tension on the mounts did this. Either way I backed off the tension of the screws to three full turns on each nut but it didnt really help that much. The cheap thermal paste on those heat sinks were a pink brittle glue material, I took it off and put AS5 on them but the bowing didnt allow for good contact. Here are some screen shots of before and after fuzion with lapping. My computer room is a constant 78F at all times year round. I really am pleased with the results the Fuzion helped tame the Quad core, the heat I was getting from OC the quad core was almost uncontrollable with it hitting +80C in TAT under load, now it gets to 70-72C max. My pump is running at 50% with fan speed at 5/10 which is pretty quiet. Before the fuzion I had to put the fan at 7 and pump at 75% just to idle at 56C and max 67C in gaming. Now I get 52C idle and 61C load. The AS5 has not broken in yet but the numbers are still good and the cores are close to each other for temps.
Here is my setup by the way:
EVGA 8800 GTX-SLI setup, XFI Fatality, EVGA 680i MB, Intel QX6700, PCpowercooling 1kw-SR PSU, Liteon 18XDVD, 10k WD raptors, Corsair 9136 5C dominator ram. Corsair Dominator Fan cooler. Koolance P4 1026BK case, Dtek Fuzion CPU cooling block and two Danger Den 8800gtx cooling blocks.



Before lapping and Koolance water block

After lapping and fuzion installed, three hours stable doing orthos, tat, prime