Cooling Persivore and Highland3r's bench session

As the title suggests, myself and Persivore are finally able to get together for our first "proper" benching session. Persivore (for those that don't know) is a bit of an electronics whizz, and Xtremesystems resident vmod mod/guru. He's built himself a bit of a reputation as a vmod whizzkid and for those that have seen his work its certainly jusfiied.

So, what's the plan? Well we've got 20 kilo's of Dry Ice on order, and some hardware which needs to be frozen
Temperature wise, we should see ~ -78 deg, should translate into some pretty cold CPU/GPU temps all being well
We've got a set (well we will have if the GPU tube actually makes it back in time) of Chilly1 Dry Ice/LN2 tubes for the session. They're brazed tubes so don't quite have the performance of solid's but should be plenty for our needs.
Also have a Prommy Mach1 here, with a Chilly head should it be required for GPU/CPU (or other) cooling.

We've got a fair bit of hardware to play with, not all of it will be frozen but we'll do as much as we can over the weekend.
So, what's lined up? Well...
2 * LS28 Conroe E6600. (both chips have run to ~ 4ghz on watercooling)
1 * Celly 326
Various GFX cards (6800LE, GF 4's, possibly 7900GT + X1800XT if we get time)
1* T2600 ES
Asus P5B vanilla (awaiting mods)
AOpen a-YDG
and 4 gigs of Gskill HZ.

Main aim's are probably going to be 2d benching, (pi's etc) and since neither of us have dabbled with Dry Ice before it'll be a learning experience for us both!

Should be a good fun few days, will try and get some pics sorted once things take shape! Fingers crossed we don't loose any hardware either.

 

Looks good, i shall be watching this closely!
ninja edit: What about removing the heatspredders on the cpus? better contact = better OC's?

 

You aiming for 5GHZ?

 

Spreaders will probably remain attached for this session, maybe remove them once we've got a little more experience hehe

5ghz would be nice, but doubt we'll make it that far with only Dry Ice. Hoping to see ~ 4.6ghz benchable from at least one of the CPU's though.
<edit> 5ghz shouldn't be a problem with the Celly however </edit>

 

Nice postman brought a huge box to the door thismorning, it was steaming nicely too!





Results later

 

Well I for one cannot wait

 

wow! cant wait for this one

 

Can you post a running log?

 

Sure. Just got back in from an outing, once we get setup will start things rolling. Later tonight/tomorrow morn most likely

 

Ohhh Looks interesting. Can't wait, GFs gone to see rellies so I have the whole weekend as a web hermit, it just got better.

 

So far....
Run the Yonah, but no gains over Single Stage Phase. Gave up as Persivore needed the GFX card to test the P5B.
Zero Condensation after an hour or so with the Yonah so that's promising.
Persivores sorting the P5B mods now, hopefully have some Celeron/Conroe results soon


Persivore nail varnishing.... the motherboard


Yonah ready to go, paper on top is to stop shrapnel falling onto motherboard

 

you got to lov the paper wings


and h is that your nail varnish

 

http://valid.x86-secret.com/show_oc?id=125935

5ghz! Pitty its mobo limited

 

WoWWeee!!!

5Ghz on a Celly! isnt that nearly a 100% OC?

 

Yup, mobo limited so we couldn't make the extra 19mhz off 100%

<ninja edit> 500 fsb on the Conroe - 4.5ghz so far </ninja edit>


<ninja edit 2 > 512 fsb - 4.63ghz </ninja edit>

 

Good work so far. Need more pics, preferably with smoking dry ice, and frost

(yes I know dry ice doesn't smoke, just couldn't think of the right word)

 

An arty one for you...


And one of an ugly fu***r adding more Ice

 

LN2 would be more interesting.

 

Yup it would indeed.

Just sorting through results etc now will update in a few mins

 

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