Captain Skyhawk

Is it possible to lap a heatsink that uses direct touch? My plan is to lap my cpu and buy some arctic silver and see what kinda temps I get before I go blow 90 dollars on a TRUE, which I can barely justify.

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kimosabi

Sure you can. It's not like you grind off a millimeter or something. Lap it and fill in the gaps between the heatpipes and base with AS5 and afterwards you apply the correct amount of AS5.

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SpeedDevil

wow you pay alot for the TRUE, mine was 45€ =/

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Captain Skyhawk

Can I get Dolby Digital 5.1 from this board. I hooked it up through Coaxial to my 5.1 system but I'm not able to get Dolby Digital on it, only fake pro logic. I changed the settings in both the windows and asus control sound panel to 5.1 yet still not luck. It sounds very good still but I though I could get pure Dolby Digital.

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SpeedDevil

I had to enable it in my bios, maybe it's still disabled there, don't really know where exactly, look around for something "HD audio". When I flicked that switch I got good 5.1 sound through my set

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the_silencer

I personally don't see the point in lapping your HS. My CCF easily gets me 24-31 degrees @ idle. If you are getting mediocre results, you are most likely not seating it properly or your case ventilation is really bad. I'm positive its not the thermal grease Sunbeam gives you b/c that Tuniq TX-2 stuff is as good as AS5. Lapping it will probably only decrease temps by 4-5 degrees tops and in order to ensure best performance, you'll have to lap the CPU too, more effort than its worth IMO.

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kimosabi

And you call yourself an Overclocker. 4-5 degrees gain at load could be as much as two notches, maybe more, in your Vcore BIOS setting. However the most important thing besides CPU-cooler is having a nice airflow in the case.

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the_silencer

Yes I call myself an overclocker Just a very lazy one! I feel that if you want a 4/5 degree temperature decrease, it's much better to just improve airflow by buying more fans or just getting a better case. I'm just a little surprised that Cpt. Skyhawk is getting such poor results with his Core Contact Freezer. I was a total noob @ sytem building and the CCF was the 2nd heatsink i've ever install (1st being stock intel). Took me 1/2 an hour to mount properly and I had a HUGE decrease in temps @ idle and load. I personally feel that the Sunbeam COre COntact Freezer is one of the best bang for buck HSFs. I guess results will vary...

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Captain Skyhawk

I really don't see how it could be seated wrong. I checked, double checked, and triple checked. The reason I'm saying about the grease is because when I first installed it, I screwed up and put the whole tube on. Later I realized that this was stupid so I cleaned most of it off, but now there is barely any on it at all. And my temps at this low voltage sucks horrible. Perhaps your ccf is just better then mine. I'm almost positive it's not seated wrong.

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Captain Skyhawk

Well the only option in my bios was to change the codec for the front panel from AC97 to HD Audio. I did that and still no luck. I don't know what else I can do. Are you sure this board even supports it? I have it hooked up through coaxial to my Onkyo sound system. I've been using Coaxial to get Dolby Digital through my dvr so I know it supports it. It's really annoying me.

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