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**Heacechig** · 06-01-2010, 10:39 AM

Personally I think lapping a CPU to a mirror finish is a waste of time, mainly because that's the purpose of thermal goop, to fill in creases that are in a non-lapped CPU.

Yeah, I would think roughing it up would give more surface area for the thermal grease and improve cooling.

06-01-2010, 10:39 AM	#27
Heacechig Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 484 Senior Member	Personally I think lapping a CPU to a mirror finish is a waste of time, mainly because that's the purpose of thermal goop, to fill in creases that are in a non-lapped CPU. Yeah, I would think roughing it up would give more surface area for the thermal grease and improve cooling.
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