3870X2 - LN2 pot mounting

[T_M]

The dual chipped 3870X2 presents some obstacles for those of us into extreme cooling.
Pictured below is my home made/semi-ghetto solution for mounting my two 'kayl' GPU pots onto the beast for some cooling action this long weekend.

Made from 3mm aluminium panel, left over from a case window mod (thanks Gary @ Uvnium).
All was made bare handed using garden variety hand tools and power tools.

Right now im typing on the system with no LN2, just to check mounting and it is really nice.
GPU's are idling at 40C and only very very slowly creeping up.

[yiancar]

Thats very nice u are very quick btw first pot for a X2

[Fujimitsu]

Simple and effective, nice work.

PS: Nice multimeter, just picked up a 116... loving it so far.

[4Qman]

great work,

[@rne]

Thats very nice u are very quick btw first pot for a X2

Nope, someone was faster. have look right here
http://www.awardfabrik.de/awardfabri...unter-ln2.html

[yiancar]

from germany? nice , at least u are the first in xs :P

[tim-]

well to be honest, I can't see the pount of this mounting thing,
it's same boltholes as on 2900xt/3870, just use the regular mountingings+

regards
Tim

[Fujimitsu]

well to be honest, I can't see the pount of this mounting thing,
it's same boltholes as on 2900xt/3870, just use the regular mountingings+

regards
Tim

Some mounting kits wouldn't work, as the chips are relatively close to each other. The hold downs/backplates would overlap.

[Harshal]

Very Nice!! Thanks for sharing Tim

[T_M]

well to be honest, I can't see the pount of this mounting thing,
it's same boltholes as on 2900xt/3870, just use the regular mountingings+

regards
Tim

42mm spacing between holes, are you sure about that?
Not to mention the fact that my pots are the size of G80 IHS (45mm), meaning the faces themselves are larger than the holes needed to mount them.

Anyway, thanks negative Nelly

[Papu]

Sweeeeeeeeeeeet!

[jabski]

very nice.

[n00b 0f l337]

Hahaha now to see some quadfire, 5 pots running, maybe thru a nb in there too. Make some real benching

[Fujimitsu]

Hahaha now to see some quadfire, 5 pots running, maybe thru a nb in there too. Make some real benching

You'd have to have a pretty beefy dewar to keep 6 pots going

[MaSell]

Maybe one big pot for bot cores lol . Big square cu block with huge mass

[PPInDaHouse]

Maybe one big pot for bot cores lol . Big square cu block with huge mass

that would be really expensive, I already thought on that and the prices for cooper would be dam expensive

[n3wbi3]

Must give credit were its due WELL DONE
Cant wait to see these resultsssss

[sup3rfly]

nice one tim... hopefully u enjoy ur benching weeked

[coolice]

now time to show some "numbers"

[kayl]

nice work there tim, cant wait to see the results mate

[sup3rfly]

sorry for off topic, kayl i m waiting for ur reply in pm... @_@

[Amey]

excellent work there tim. Looking forward to the results.

[T_M]

Thanks guys.
Darky, see the hole i put near the top for the Pulse chip? Well there needs to also be a hole i think just above that for two very hot little chips.

[Solarfall]

Maybe one big pot for bot cores lol . Big square cu block with huge mass

hehe thats was just what i was thing
anyway sweet lookign pots T_M

[Amey]

Thanks guys.
Darky, see the hole i put near the top for the Pulse chip? Well there needs to also be a hole i think just above that for two very hot little chips.

Hmm, let me know the changes
If i had a X2 with me, life would have been so simple