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M9700 from overheating to less than 75C at 100% load

post #1 of 6
1/20/11 at 1:18am
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Okay I dont know what I did, I just followed the directions for artic silver and took some of my own measures. I used a fiber Optic connector kit with its polishing pads and sand paper to get the CPU heatsink to a near mirror like shine. Well initially when I applied AS5 it was still hitting 89C and down clocking itself, but after a 12hour period it stabilized at around 75 - 80C at 100% load and now wont go over 75C while playing UT3 on max graphics or crysis at mid.
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post #2 of 6
1/20/11 at 8:37am
You it the jackpot then - if you have some pics from the project it would be great.

"fiber Optic connector kit with its polishing pads and sand paper to get the CPU heatsink to a near mirror like shine." - I will try this (sanding down) sometimes

cheers ...
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post #3 of 6
1/20/11 at 12:47pm
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equipment used.

Okay, here are the pictures of the equipment i Used. There are 4 pads, one is aluminum oxide which is the coarse sand paper the other two are .3m and .1m papers and the black thing is a buffing pad. Unfortunately I did not think to take pictures during the process to show the finish, but the copper looked almost as shiney as chrome that has just been polished. Obviously I started with the low course to remove dirt grit and impurities, sanding in a figure 8 motion. then I used the .3m to rectify the surface, then the .1m to further rectify the surface. The buffing pad was used to smooth out the micro valleys in the heat sink. After which I used a microscope and light system from a pace kit to check the surface. I could still see some imprefections in it which I tried to rctify but could not entierly make it perfect after about 30 minutes of buffing. You can prolly see the top of one of my Marines head. This is just the commentary, I was going to upload the pictures right now at work but these computers are ran by NMCI(navy marine corps intranet) aka: Nazi Marine Corps Intranet, and its not mounting my phone like it used to.
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post #4 of 6
1/20/11 at 2:17pm
You manually buffed the surface correct?

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post #5 of 6
1/20/11 at 2:19pm
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You manually buffed the surface correct?

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Yes, just kept rubbing the heck out of it till the small swirls slowly disappeared.
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post #6 of 6
1/21/11 at 7:32pm
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pictures

Here are all the pictures of the equipment i used
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