great read, charlie! thanks for sharing this near-WR experience with us :)
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great read, charlie! thanks for sharing this near-WR experience with us :)
Nice job:up:
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nice project, i´ll see some benches with your sli cards:D
Where can I get some of that OIL charlie?
Me and a Friend have got some DI tubes. Instead of going through insulating the cou socket etc and graphics card this would be sooo much easier. Im sure that I will do not so good job on the insulation on the gpu and kill the card or something but this OIL method is brilliant :D
Charlie, something you should try is putting the PSU in the liquid. The PSU's need cooling, plus it might increase peak output since most PSU's have peak output at colder temps. Good job by the way. Don’t disappoint us. You have to reach 4 GHz.
Now I would think thats risky...
wow that looks awsome! Where can we get some of that stuff :) ??? Also i was wondering how your submerged fans (nb fan for example) behaved submerged in that stuff. Were they still going fast and acting like pumps? were they stopped? Thanks!
why didn't you insulate the tub? (outside)
VERY nice work charlie :D
hope you break the WR next time :)
i am 99% sure that it wont be an FX-55. It seems like it would be to hardQuote:
Originally Posted by pik-ard v1.1
i am thinking either Venice or San Diego core procs
that was a great read man! xtreme fun with ln2 :D did you find out what died? hopefully not teh fx55, thats expensive :(
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Originally Posted by Bennah
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Originally Posted by charlie
You actually got my jaw open with this one, really nice work charlie.
Maybe you should try actually heating around the cpu socket with a small heater or something? You would probably get slightly higher cpu temps but if the IHS is at -100 then the stuff right around the processor is probably what caused the board to die...
Maybe I'm just crazy though.
This is extremely interesting. A very cool experiment/ project. Got me thinking, has anyone ever made a vacuum-ed rig? I assume if there is no air around the cold components, no chance for condensation right?
Anyway, this is the coolest (no pun intended) thing I have seen in quite a while, thanks for sharing with us!
It was pretty crazy.... after about an hour, the oil FROZE around the baseplate and tube. Looked like vanilla ice cream ;)
I was actually thinking the fluid might help the caps and such NOT GET too cold. I mean the fluid was no cooler than -10C, that probably WARMED the components near the CPU socket,
About the submerged fans, I unplugged the NB fan (it was probably cooled well enough ;) )
Awesome job charlie!
freakin' extreme :banana4: :eek:Quote:
Originally Posted by charlie
so your mobo prolly died because of the fluid that was frozen and because of that those components around the socket fried? :(
http://dsifluids.com/A2%20Brochure.PDF
dielectric breakdown 58kV !!
sink the PSU !! :banana4: :banana: :banana4:
Charlie you have to send that board back to msi like that... They will flip.. it should be a good laugh..
that is amazing charlie... amazing
good work :D
You could have used isoprophyl alcohol instead of oil IMO. If you bench for ~ 1h there would be no problems as long as N2 would push humidity out of the chamber with alcohol
A great read Charlie. I hope you had as much fun doing it as I did reading it. Hope it's not the FX that fried on ya.
lol.... I didn't want the alk headache like after DI experiments and it's just generally smelly :(Quote:
Originally Posted by berkut
Oh and the oil's reusable :)
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How much did the 2gal. of OPTI-COOL run you, Charlie? :)
Well, I had it for review, I'm not sure of the retail price....Quote:
Originally Posted by twilius_basic
OH!!! And slightly OT, when I got home last night I threw my x800xtPE in my 24/7 rig to make sure it wasn't the problem and noticed it's quieter than before the bath!!! Seems that the oil re-lubed the fan, lol
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