Cooling Little diamond cpu cooler

Yeh, I thought about using 10mm Plexi and creating a vacuum in the space...

 

That would I imagine work, but would be quite an engineering feat, great if you can do it though.

 

Master level trolling right there, A for effort, I award you a gold star.

 

You pulled of the whole deal there... Nice. "but I think it is because of the solid metal" lol. Although I'm half disappointed you aren't some sort of mega Muppet. Is that wrong? Ha!

 

I think the whole thread is wrong on so many levels....so welcome

 

Okay, seeing how I took the time to wind you up I thought I'd share my final ocing results with you also.

After much toil I've flogged a fair bit of extra performance out of my aged system.

Got my Q6600 G0 stepping default 2.4 clocked to 3.92Ghz 435 fsb x9 multipler 1.45vcore.....stable in wprime ( not prime95) and more importantly is game benchmark stable, my ram is pants running that at 870mhz 5,5,5,15

Also oc'ed my palit sonic 2X SLI gtx 460 2GB models nvidia reference if 675mhz these come from the factory at 700mhz. Got this up to a whopping 980mhz and the gddr from 1800 to 2000mhz.
Did a bios flash to unlock extra voltage using 1.15v core.

Not stable in furmark burnin but again is gaming benchmark stable.

I've been looping through Metro 2033 frontline benchmark dx11 on the highest settings af x16 aa x4 dof enabled at max monitor res of 1920x1200.......don't think they come much more taxing than that, graphics cards are below 30 deg C and cpu below 20. Also been using cryostasis and hard rest benchmarks.....all stable so I'm hoping will be good for my gaming usage.

 

Still impressive temps even considering how cool the ambient temp in the unit is.

 

60 above ambient?

This must be costing you tons in electric! Any reason why?

 

Yeah, I'm real pleased I was able to get such a high oc out of the graphics cards and the temps are marvelous......when I game I'll be using nvidias active vsync so that will cut power usage and temps even more.

 

Probably more like 40 to 50 above the chamber temp in actuality.

That's comparable to the temp delta you get with ambient air cooling. But because of the lower temperature you can get a better overclock for the same temp delta...I guess there is less leakage in the silicon at lower temps.

The 45% overclock on the gpu's and 63% on the cpu may have something to do with it

Now if I can get similar results when I upgrade to more current hardware....perhaps you'll see the reason for it then?

 

Is condensation an issue, Technogiant?

 

No...not as yet...I've built this thing leak proof....and the expansion/contraction chamber keeps slight positive pressure in there to eliminate air contraction trying to suck fresh air in.

I have desiccant in there to deal with already present moisture on top of that I always chill the unit down before I start, that allows the ac evap rad to further dehumidify the chamber.

The pc components will always be hotter than the surrounding chamber air again reducing any tendency for condensation...so far it's all good....I think if there was going to be a problem it would have happened by now as I have no condensation protection on the mobo or socket.

The other thing I do is leave the fans circulating air around as it returns to normal temps after shut down.
This ensures temps raise evenly so you don't get any cold spots which remain colder than the surrounding chamber air and so attract condensation.

 

Ah I see. Thanks for the info

 

+Rep for the trolling.

Also may I ask how much electricity does this cost?

 

Thanks for the rep...no idea about the electricity..but you don't get something for nothing for sure...the ac unit is a 2.6kw unit with 3.5kw of cooling power...it will hold a 2kw heat load at +3 deg C...thought this was an enthusiast site where performance was king and power an incidental that tree huggers worried about.

 

Just curious. Sheesh, 2kw...

Still epic though.

 

Yes, but we like low power systems too, so we can throw their power hungry macbook pro's in their faces while triumphantly screaming that our much more capable system(and therefore bigger e-peen) consumes far less power. ( CAPS ENABLED!!!!).