My First DICE Benching Session with ktek
Me and Ktek have decide on doing Dry Ice benching session not too long ago :P
So,without further ado,here is the story :)
Start from 18th December 2010 first.
We does not manage to secure our Dry Ice supply so first thing is to find Dry Ice first..This had lead to a big adventure/Found one place called Zeta Kilang Air Batu which is suppose to be around Selayang Pasar but we(me,my father and ktek) have drive around selayang for 2 and a half hour or so and never manage to find it.With some info from my father friend,we knew that there are a place on Cheras Pertama that sell it so we decide to get it from there.So,after closing my father shop,we head to buy 6kg of DICE.
So,finally we have our DICE supply.
Now,onto system spec:
Processor:Core 2 E8600 Q820A349
Motherboard:Abit IP35 Pro Unmoded
Ram:Team Xtreem DDR 2 1066mhz CL5 D9GKX
HDD:WD 320GB SATA
GC:Gigabyte GTX460 1GB OC
Pot:Vivi's ex pot /Ghetto Rig Thermal Probe(Thermal Probe inside pot + Use multimeter to read out resistance to read out temperature)
Yate Loon High Speed 12CM Fan as ram cooler
OS:Windows 7 x86 Ultimate/Windows XP SP3
Then,we start by insulate the motherboard.When we done,we boot up and nothing happened....We proceed to tear down and find out why.Turn out to be my noobie mistake..the Clear CMOS position back jumper is at Clear Cmos position..so noob of me.Of course,ktek make fun of me...then we assemble again.So,pour alcohol and DICE in and we start to bench
The benchie done:
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http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a1...09156sPI1M.jpg
Motherboard went haywire after that.So we proceed to tear down again and there are water in socket.No wonder why this happened..After that,we go to sleep and we have some Dry Ice left still.Turn out to be there are a gap we don't seal between processor and socket cover that causes this.
Then fast forward to 19.12.10.We fix our insulation from previous late night session and continue on to bench.Also,we change the alcohol to the one my mother gave me.This is much better then the one ktek bring from penang.According to ghetto thermal probe,the alcohol ktek bring only goes down to roughly 0 C or so(from our guesstimate) and much lower on the one my mother gave so hence much better result on 2nd session.
The best result from this session:
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http://i11.photobucket.com/albums/a183/EVOFans/8797.jpg
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Then we run out of Dry Ice
Hwbot submission for best point:
http://hwbot.org/community/submission/1093..._797ms?new=true
http://hwbot.org/community/submission/1093...81_mhz?new=true
That about sum it up for our weekend extreme oc attempt.Not too bad i'd say but certainly not ultra good.
Credit to Ktek for coming to KL and being helpful/good company all round
Might do one more DICE session with vdroop mod
