OCZ Cryo-Z - leading a lamb to the slaughter

[fatguy1992]

Why did they only tune it for 120watts? Thats nothing.

[SAE]

I cannot imagine it to be only tuned for such a low load... but I 've also been wondering what "Max Stable Load: 120W " could mean.

[KB24LA]

too bad it will cost 5 times more with shipping to my place

[jcool]

Can't see any pics

Also, I hope this is a joke and not the real spec?

[*]Max. Stable Load: 120W

[skinnee]

I can see the pics just fine... they hosted on my site.

I cannot be sure as to the max load, I don't have a load tester. Max Stable load... thats a misleading spec anyway.

[=[PULSAR]=]

I see a lot of people complaining about this SS not being able to keep a quad cool and I don't know much about phase change but would putting a better fan on the rad change much at all? Say if your benching throw a high rpm delta on there.

[n00b 0f l337]

Doesn't always work that way, much of the time it's about there not being enough refrigerant delivered to the evaporator to hold the load.

[Badfastbusa]

I see a lot of people complaining about this SS not being able to keep a quad cool and I don't know much about phase change but would putting a better fan on the rad change much at all? Say if your benching throw a high rpm delta on there.

It would seem that that would help out with the things turning themselves off after a while

[Monstru]

Looking nice, the only scary part is that "120W" issue that have allready been mentioned around here. In order to check this out, take some hungry Bloomfield to 5GHz with something like 1.6 vCore / 1.6 vQPI, and give it a spin in Prime or ChessTest or something. Open RealTemp. If the core temp is bellow 80 oC you are ok

[Jor3lBR]

Looking nice, the only scary part is that "120W" issue that have allready been mentioned around here. In order to check this out, take some hungry Bloomfield to 5GHz with something like 1.6 vCore / 1.6 vQPI, and give it a spin in Prime or ChessTest or something. Open RealTemp. If the core temp is bellow 80 oC you are ok

It cannot hold all that load. I tested this with a Q9650 @ 5ghz 1.5vcore / 1.5vtt and it would go -10oC to 0oC till shut down under wPrime 1024m.

[Monstru]

Ouch, that hurts!!! This means that with Nehalem it will be a very hot experience

[Buckeye]

I think you might be shooting for to high of performance for this unit. Clearly this is not a so called benching phase unit, but better suited for 24/7 use with a lower overclock.

Try these tests with say a 4.4ghz overclock, I wish I still had my unit so I could compare.

If you are throwing some of the hardest benches at it like Prime95 on a high overclock with a high heat output Quad then yeah it will most likely fail.

I think this is better suited for a 24/7 gaming rig running maybe 4.2ghz to 4.4ghz, maybe higher with a good chip.

Sometimes its like this with CPU's, a nice Air Cooled CPU canget a high OC nice and stable, but throw it on extreme cooling and it falls apart, the reverse is true also.

But if you pick something like a I5 750 as a CPU you would end up much happier with your results. I was able to get a very good OC with a 750 on my Chilly1 phase unit. The unit ran with little noise and heat output and made a very nice 24/7 machine vs my Jinu SS Phase with QX9770 @ 4.8ghz and the high heat output and noise it created.

[Dumo]

Single phase use for quad core cpu is all depend on application. 24/7 with stock vcore is still ok, but if you want to run stress test to find out stability then you will be dissapointed. Most of stock brand name single phase was build for single core cpu.

I use it to test new cpu to find out baseline oc'd settings for 3Ds and 2Ds for benches that can be applied for LN2 benching

To be able to run with evap temp. at borderline + temp (-0C to -5C) will require some tweaking

[Jor3lBR]

Single phase use for quad core cpu is all depend on application. 24/7 with stock vcore is still ok, but if you want to run stress test to find out stability then you will be dissapointed. Most of single phase build for single core cpu.

I use it to test new cpu to find out baseline oc'd settings for 3Ds and 2Ds for benches that can be applied for LN2 benching

To be able to run with evap temp. at borderline + temp (-0C to -5C) will require some tweaking

You cannot expect to run Prime95 with it., but it would run a Quad at 5ghz all day without any problems for normal 24/7 use.

[Dumo]

Since AMD FX60 then Conroe hit the market, some peeps here put their single stage cooler to rest and LN2 became cooling of choice for benching

[NotSoCoolJ]

Since AMD FX60 then Conroe hit the market, some peeps here put their single stage cooler to rest and LN2 became cooling of choice for benching

It makes sense to me that if you are doing short baseline sessions, you want as low a temp as possible. You get a lot more of that for your money with lN2.

Seems like this thing could do an i5 a whole lot of good for everyday use. On water the best I can do is 4.0Ghz with 1.4v. Now, I refuse to run that all the time, so for 24/7 use, I am limited to 3.6Ghz@1.3v. With this, I could easily get to 4+Ghz with maybe the same or less voltage that I am using now.