The Rebirthed Cascade

[Moc]

Yup, I had considered that but without stacking them vertical and making a tower of condensing power, I'd run into all sorts of liquid trapping problems.

If you would put them like this in series, there would be no problem.

[Jack]

Mytekcontrols also made vertical HX once, as you can see in his first autocascade. And his comment about the 'pooling' of liquid:

It could if the velocity was very low, or the annular space was large, but in this situation neither is true (it was also much easier to have a vertical orientation due to the size and shape of the space available).

However, you are correct. Ideally it is best to have a horizontal stacking of the heat exchangers, just to insure that there will be no liquid hang-up problems when returning to the compressor.

So I don't think putting 2 condensors in series is going to cause problems.

[[XC] gomeler]

I'm a lazy bastard.





It would be silly to say this thing is even tuned. Powerdraw currently is around 1050 watts and I'm about to strap it to my i5 670 for a little fun. Besides the condenser nothing has really changed on this build. For the next month or so I'll leave it the way it is but after graduation I plan on trying a PID + solenoid evap controller. Now that school stress is easing up I have more time for my hobby

Right now I'm waiting on some C14 connectors to finishing up the wiring, a half dozen temp probes for measurements, and the fan that bolts up to the condenser. Fun times on Spring Break for me

[sdumper]

It lives

[[XC] gomeler]

Apparently the probe was placed in a bad spot. Now it is wedged right against the IHS of the CPU and I'm seeing a steady -96C to -97C while installing Windows XP. So I imagine a evap temp around -100C to -105C. I'm happy for now, let's see how it handles some Clarkdale 2D.

[Yellowbeard]

Nice! Let me know what that 670 does under there. What board or boards are you using?

[[XC] gomeler]

Asus Maximus 3 Extreme right now. I'm just testing Super Pi 32M as I have zero experience w/ Clarkdale and 32M. Works fine at 5.8GHz and 1.65vcore and 1.31vimc with IHS temps around -92C to -90C at the end of the run(~7minutes).

[Yellowbeard]

Asus Maximus 3 Extreme right now. I'm just testing Super Pi 32M as I have zero experience w/ Clarkdale and 32M. Works fine at 5.8GHz and 1.65vcore and 1.31vimc with IHS temps around -92C to -90C at the end of the run(~7minutes).

Mmmm....I'm salivating about putting some GTX1s on that board with you. Also, do you have any SS modules? I have some old ES 1866s, Samsung based stuff we could try on there.

[[XC] gomeler]

Mmmm....I'm salivating about putting some GTX1s on that board with you. Also, do you have any SS modules? I have some old ES 1866s, Samsung based stuff we could try on there.

Nope, nothing single-sided. Don't really need it on cascade as I can't make use of 280MHz baseclock This is just testing for a LN2 bath in the near future.

[Yellowbeard]

These ES Sammies are good for 1866+ and are SS. I never tried to push them as 1GB modules were boring at the time. Perhaps we can bathe the modules in your rig sometime soon? I'm still waiting to hear from Brian but GS should be good for a weekday when he comes to pick up his 3 stage from Scott.

[sdumper]

Im hoping he can pick up this Sunday but the r170 is just arriving tomorrow so dont hold me to Sunday just yet

[Duh]

I'm a lazy bastard.

Hope you are kiding Chris. How figured out the way out for our board Lot's of enthusiasm and a rebuild that is getting very nice. Keep it up and as I like to say choose your own speed. We can admire the build and love it ( but we are watching TV) and it's you who enjoys in a truly sense while re-building it.
Heads up dude, make it a sexy for us ( with the time frame you choose)