I'd love to compare some results, but first, I gotta hit home depot in the a.m. for some industrial sized extension cords. My 15amp breaker keeps tripping when loading into windows.

Turned off everything in the room except the cascade and the bench rig.........

So far the results are:

She'll run wprime 32m @ 5.2ghz @ 1.72 vCore if boot up at -102c and launched before -96c in windows. If left to idle, she'll drop all the way down to -66c.

She'll idle @ -94.5c in windows xp @ 5050mhz @ 1.62vCore and pass all benchmarks including wprime 1024m but will drop down to -88c during test.

At stock clocks and voltage, she'll cool down to aroun -102c after a while in the os.

So, in summary, it appears that under Gulftown, this cascade is only capable of reliable runs in teh area of 5050 thru 5100mhz.

Incidentally, cpu score in 3d06 @ 5050mhz is 11080 ish.

Yeah I think Gulftown might be pushing this unit pretty hard compared to what it was built for. 1.7vocre :ohcrap:

Before a test let it sit for a min and watch 1out temps, let it come back as low as it will go before starting the run. That is the key to load handling, let the Cascade come back to normal temps/pressures before starting test.

changing cables won't help....try running the cascade off of one breaker..and the pc.at another...

or try changing your breaker to 20A..unless your house has a limit of 15A ...lol

That is probably why he is getting extension cords to run to another circuit ;)

At least that is what I did when I went out and bought Heavy duty cord.

20 AMP for shizzle the serious bencher needs a room with two 20AMPs anymore with AC units, phase change and 1200+ W PSUs.

That setup is gonna be perfect for pretesting settings Kal. Also would be great for older gen cpu benching, since its cheaper than LN2 and u can score a ton of hwpoints

Thats my project for next weekend... install 2 new 20AMP circuit to the bench table :cool3:

It'll help guard against melting the cords and its needed to move the cascade off of the office circuit. Do not use ext. cords for psu's btw, not a good thing.

My a/c air unit runs off a seperate breaker via extension cords and that cord gets pretty darn hot during operation as its your run of the mill ext. cord.

I'm gonna see how she fairs at bloomfield later today.
This gufltown chip is getting wicked hot and leaky. It'll need ln2 love.

Anyone know if its cool to just change teh breaker from 15a to 20a?

12 gauge romex is fine for 20A, 14gauge is pushing it. One 15Ah circuit should be fine for the 2stage if its on solo....less extension cords the better.

I was able to run the full cascade off of one wall socket, and all the rest of my compter stuff in the same roon, including another SS Phase.

I thought you had the office power upgraded when we first talked about this stuff long ago ?


hmm my room is ready for a 3 stage ;)

Does extension cords = upgrade?


Go check your breaker, its prolly a 20a while mine is a 15a and running all sortsa crap in my office. The cascade runs fine off ONE wall socket, just wanna move it off the office circuit.

I would bet his office has 2 circuits. Not even 2400w would be enough for the monsta, a SS and a couple of overclocked computers and all the accessories that go with it.


EDIT: What is the RLA on those compressors?