10 heatpipe xp120

**fordf250** · 03-23-2005, 07:50 AM

I was able to solder two xp120s into 1. First I tried to just glue them together with arctic alumina thermal glue but the temps were no better than one xp120.Then i got an acetalyne plumbers torch (not oxy-acet) and was able to separate everything.Two propane plumbers torches could not give enough heat.The new xp has the original 5 heat pipes on the bottom, the 2 outside upper pipes soldered beside the first 5 to the base and the last 3 uppers soldered on topof the first 5.That gives me 7 pipes soldered on the base and 3 just above without the the second base.I will pull it out later and get some pics of the finished product but iI have to clean it up a bit, the torch left it very ugly.

This case has a 120mm exhaust fan that almost lined up pefectly for the upright half ,I will bend it a little more whenit comes out.

After the AS5 settled my temps are 51-56C at 265(4.24Ghz) and 1.6v.I tried 270(4.32Ghz) and 1.65V but it started to throttle after a half hour of dual prime95,then one prime failed.Temps with one prime95 never get to 50C.

Running ut2004 for an hour temps never got above 44C.

The last picture is a thermaltake silent tower with a silverstone nitrogen soldered to it.I made this before you could mount an xp120 to the 775s.The temps were the same as an xp120 but its realy heavy.

**J-Mag** · 03-23-2005, 10:24 AM

Hmm... I see no pic... but sounds intersting and FRIGGIN HUGE!

Edit: woah there they go, i see them..

**DeltZ** · 03-23-2005, 11:06 AM

LOL....welcome to the forum i guess xtreme heatsink lol :P wish i had an xp120 to keep things cool

**fordf250** · 03-23-2005, 01:16 PM

Sorry didnt see the cooling section

**mcnbns** · 03-23-2005, 01:26 PM

nice! You don't see many people modding air cooled stuff, only water cooling.

**Magnj** · 03-23-2005, 01:34 PM

!!! Xp 240

**ArcTan** · 03-24-2005, 03:02 AM

xtreme air cooling?

I'd have to be rich to do it over here
1 bare xp-120 costs us$85 here

**DeltZ** · 03-24-2005, 03:16 AM

Originally Posted by ArcTan

xtreme air cooling?

I'd have to be rich to do it over here
1 bare xp-120 costs us$85 here

ha, now you know what it's like to live in the UK :P

**caLume** · 03-24-2005, 04:15 AM

nice solution.

but dont you think that this would nearly rip out the cpu of your mobo ? D:

**fordf250** · 03-24-2005, 05:42 AM

Arctan whats a water cooling rig cost? I,m very happy to be at 4.24Ghz on air and the two sinks cost me about $120 total.

caLume the new thermalright stuff is very light, the 2 xp120s dont weight as much as a single large copper heatsink.

I,ll try to get some install pictures today.

**caLume** · 03-24-2005, 06:14 AM

Originally Posted by fordf250

caLume the new thermalright stuff is very light, the 2 xp120s dont weight as much as a single large copper heatsink.

so they are lighter than, for example, a hyper6 ?

**fordf250** · 03-24-2005, 07:24 AM

I would think so, the base is thin copper, the pipes are copper but the fins are alu also I have a back plate I think came with the 775 adapter.

**fordf250** · 03-24-2005, 12:10 PM

Installed pictures

**SLaY3r07** · 03-24-2005, 01:46 PM

That is freakin sweet

**SuperDude** · 03-24-2005, 03:13 PM

your gonna rip your board off, rofl

**Bennah** · 03-24-2005, 03:21 PM

omfg thats ghetto for sure !

whats the performance like though ?

**jayjaya29** · 03-24-2005, 04:48 PM

Wow, that acually fits in there quite nice. Nice work.

**matt9669** · 03-24-2005, 05:46 PM

Nicely done! Good to see that air is still an overclocker's tool

**ArcTan** · 03-24-2005, 08:07 PM

Originally Posted by fordf250

Arctan whats a water cooling rig cost? I,m very happy to be at 4.24Ghz on air and the two sinks cost me about $120 total.

caLume the new thermalright stuff is very light, the 2 xp120s dont weight as much as a single large copper heatsink.

I,ll try to get some install pictures today.

a swiftech kit costs about us$230 while the normal price in the us is about us$150 I think though we do have the Cathar's Storm and silverprop gear here at better prices

**matt9669** · 03-24-2005, 08:09 PM

Originally Posted by ArcTan

a swiftech kit costs about us$230 while the normal price in the us is about us$150 I think though we do have the Cathar's Storm and silverprop gear here at better prices

Yeah but water carries a whole lot of pains in the a$$ that air doesn't

**ArcTan** · 03-25-2005, 03:23 AM

Originally Posted by matt9669

Yeah but water carries a whole lot of pains in the a$$ that air doesn't

yeah
I went from axp with water to a64 with air

**matt9669** · 03-25-2005, 04:01 AM

Somehow I'm guessing you get better performance on air than you did on water

**fordf250** · 03-25-2005, 06:34 AM

I have fried enough motherboards and vga cards with volt mods and stuff without adding water into the mix.This was cheaper than water and I get 87fps in doom 3 at high quality and 1280x 1024 and 2x aa at 4.24g and ut2004 does not slow down at full detail 1280x1024, 96-100fps on all maps.

**Master_G** · 03-25-2005, 06:40 AM

That is awesome, great work!

G

**caLume** · 03-25-2005, 07:12 AM

right, thats really nice work,
u got something about temps ?

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