Tripple stage cascade 2014

This years resolution to myself was to return to competitive benching so I started the new year getting up to speed again with Haswell and Z87 along with finding all my stuff that has been packed away. I pulled the cascade from storage and cleaned it up, fired it up to after a few years of down time and being broken.

10 Years ago I started the 3 stage cascade project after several successful builds and a sweet deal on compressors from Ebay.
First firing of all three stages was a success, -100c
5 Rebuilds, all compressors have been changed.
This cascade has thousands of hours of run time.
Two trips around the world.
Twice on stage for Intel CEO and VP.
I have never been to Cebit but my cascade has.
It fits in the trunk of a Hertz Mustang Shelby (135Mph/7 hour trip to SFO)
Countless world record runs

4770K Intel Early ES - Retail Press Sample
EVGA Kingpin Edition 780ti 1200/1900 air
Gigabyte Z87XOC
Corsair Platinum 2666C10 @ 2800C9
Corsair AX1200i
Corsair Force GT

Three stage cascade -110c @ 10psi
6.1Ghz @ 1.6v

http://fugger.ipage.com/cascade/01b.png

I saved over my best screen, second best posted :P

Talked about this over the years but I didn't realize it had that much history behind it :)

Very nice Charles !!

I have a picture of that machine a few years ago, I think it's all been changed around tho.

Fixed my screen shot :)

6.2Ghz

http://fugger.ipage.com/cascade/01e.jpg

Very nice ! :)

Nice with low nb..

The bug has bitten you, FUGGER's back!

That 3 Stager Cascade has been around for many years , I remember :). Nice scores Charles , well done !

Seems legit :D

Awesome run:up:

use an extreme bios charles. X07 is efficient, try this one

http://www.mediafire.com/?bdy7xx6c9fveqv3

Nice work, Charles! Now put that setup to good use! :up:

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Originally Posted by Don_Dan

Nice work, Charles! Now put that setup to good use! :up:

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+1 , seems that he got bitten by the OCing bug again Daniel :up: . Good to see you still have it after all this years Charles :yepp:. You can always send that cascade down to Puerto Rico for me to test drive :D , 3 stage phase awesomeness !

Get that NB frequency up and watch the score pop.

^ maybe it wont!? Im astonished its this fast at 3.9ghz

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Originally Posted by Splave

^ maybe it wont!? Im astonished its this fast at 3.9ghz

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Only one way to find out. :D

Thanks for the bios I will switch over. Xtreme Addict killed my XOC from the show, Sa and Sb on diag, both memory channels no longer work.

The 3.9ghz is a bug, it has happened more than once where it will read 39 but it is actually at 58x or 59x, it scores correctly.

Still going but another messed up screen :)

http://fugger.ipage.com/cascade/01g.JPG

Am I the only one who can't see the screens? I have to copy the URL from the quoted message. :confused:

Congrats for reaching 170k! :up:

tested at 5ghz 4.5ghz cache score 132k // 5ghz 3ghz cache 128k // 5ghz 3.9ghz cache 131k :) seems it doesnt need to be high anyways

I spelled it "tripple" so that I can locate my cascade threads easier, years later.

wow, so this cooling could be great for 24/7. Whats your "stable" clock at it? Around 5500 MHz? Show please photo of this cooling system :)

6.1Ghz 1.6v 4c/8t 24/7 with the Haswell.

I did some work on it today, re did the insulation from the heat exchangers and returns to compressors on 3rd and 2nd stage to reduce loss.

Whut ??? 6.1Ghz 1.6v 4c/8t 24/7 with the Haswell. and it will not dead soon at that volt :eek: ?? :woot: is this possible even :D thats nuts mate great job to. awesome score to

awesome. well done Charles!

The OC bug, hehe, nice to see the monster back in action, and the cascade too :D

Even more work done, mashed up some old ideas with why the f not attitude.

The worlds first Evapparatus will bring life to old cascades around the world.

A few pictures of the old and progression into new.

http://fugger.ipage.com/cascade/cb0.png

This design fits everything except AMD GPU and CPU's

http://fugger.ipage.com/cascade/nvmount.jpg

Anyway, making sure everything fits the block.
This is the old block

http://fugger.ipage.com/cascade/cb1.jpg

That evap has seen a lot of action :)

Is that rubber O-ring all you need for the hold down bracket, or am I missing something. It's just i'm using a fairly large and quite hard to remove metal one. If a rubber one will do, it would make it easier for me in the future changing clamps.

It is a rubber o-ring and easy to remove.

Does the mount also include Intel sockets or NV GPU only?

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It is a rubber o-ring and easy to remove.

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That's great. I will see what I can dig up for my units.

I have made mounting for all Intel sockets

Are there pictures in this thread as I cant see them.

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OK, there are but can only see them in the source code, have to copy and paste into a new tab for them to show up.

Nice

:)

the old one was pretty hammered lol

Another update

I do not have an oil return problem and my third stage expansion valve has been a champ running into a vacuum for countless hours on end. I wanted more yet did not want to increase compressor size or add another heat exchanger, I decided to try something different.

I Cleaned the insulation from around the block and exposed the liquid line. I added 1/4" copper tubing wrapped around the base of the block. I attached it to a 230L pressurized dewer to force feed LN2 to the base of my block taking me colder than before.

http://fugger.ipage.com/cascade/b1.jpg

The first attempt was a bit too short but it did work, venting the LN2 into the base wasn't a problem.

http://fugger.ipage.com/cascade/b2.jpg

Version 2.0 I added a cheap needle valve to test, surprisingly it still moved when frozen.

http://fugger.ipage.com/cascade/b3.jpg

It all fits under existing mounting, other than cutting back insulation nothing else was touched.

http://fugger.ipage.com/cascade/b4.jpg

Beast mode activated !

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Beast mode activated !

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Hell yeah. Really looking forward to seeing some temps put of this now.