Beach parties are the best.

I used to LOVE hurricane parties :party:

i'll bring the purple drank

Hurricane parties :thumbsup: I have attended a couple of those :laughing: Better buy the booze way before the storm hits cause you ain't gonna find any a couple days out.

There will be plenty of Clear Springs availible for some Jungle juice and we can also use it as an activator for some dice action ..... :thumbsup:

Can't wait for this thing to arrive Buckeye, gonna make life much easier on Supes :D

Your wife might shit when she sees that power bill though... :taunt:

I should get a call today with tracking info etc. I was told yesterday that it will ship today.

dude cascade is epic for hammering out 32m spi, ran like 20 different runs last night no pouring! Did chores between runs rofl. Will save you alot of ln2 testing cold settings as well. Win for sure, I just couldnt swing both with my modest income and significant other still in school.

Bill, how much did that thing cost to operate you think? What about a strong ss setup for benching??

My bill was +$60 running 2x a week total of probably 10 hours a week.

What state? That's not very cheap, LOL

It doesn't really seem that bad... 25lbs of dice once a week is roughly $100+ a month. Ln2 even more...

Upstate New York, live in a small apartment. Usual bill before was $20 in the winter, latest was $85 rofl. FBI knocking on the door

Well considering that you don't run it 24/7 and really for only a few hours at a time I don't think that it should be to bad.

The biggest consideration I would think for someone looking at running one of these puppies is how well your home is wired. Startups draw a big load so you might have to run an extension cord to a different wall socket.

I am pretty lucky here where I live and ran the Cascade on one socket, while I still had another SS Phase, my main rig and the benching rig plus a bunch of other stuff with no problems. This means I should be good to go for a 3 stager LOL.

The house I lived in before and grew up in is much older and could not have done this with out getting new lines wired in.

Other considerations is noise, this unit is not bad at all while running, it is some what loud but not nearly as bad as some others I have heard. Rottary compressers are way to loud for me, plus its a higher pitched sound, I could not handle one of those for very long. My family is pretty understanding about all this and never complained one bit while i ran the unit.

Last is heat output. I have a rather large room I bench in so it was not a problem at all, I never did notice any real heat coming out of the unit while benching. Now my Jinu SS Phase when installed on my main rig was not only noisy but had a lot of heat coming out if it.

Running in a smaller room you might notice the heat and noise more tho.

Condensation was never an issue for me, it never frooze over or had ice forming anywhere. I am lucky where I live :)

Kal will notice that I wrap the Evap enclosure with a layer of Armaflex becuase when I first ran the Jinu SS Phase on the main rig it would for water dops around the enclosure so one layer of tape fixed all that. I don't know how bad it is where Kal lives but he may need to put another layer on. Good prep work is key to get a nice tight seal.

I do it just like this for everything.
http://www.overclockaholics.com/foru...ead.php?t=1690

This unit has been a real pleasure to run and it will be missed a great deal :(
Now I have to get moving and build another :ohcrap:
But I have a few surprises that I want to work on for something a little different, all in good time :)

Still cheaper than buying ln2 gear and filling the dewars. It's still just more than I expected. What about you ss guys?

I think it'll be here just in time for Gulftown+new cards

Yeah running LN2 can be very costly :(

Its like taking $150 and watching it go up in fog everything I fill my Dewar.
I went crazy there for awhile and had LN2 running like tap water here, but it just becomes to costly after awhile.

Going AMD at max temps is the worst at cost tho :(

I am thinking if it goes by plane maybe monday or sooner, by ship early part of next week. But dont hold me to that until I talk with the shipper today LOL.

Very helpful link! Thank you and 1+


Yes it might be true but the problem is you always need a cold bug free CPU which in Intel world is pretty had to get. I never in my life had on which could take a fully filled up LN2 pot. The beauty of LN2 is that you can regulate the temps. Phase is full force and relax.

Well many clarks and gulfies can be run lower than -150, and that bodes well for LN2'ers. Phase for me will be used to do the pretesting and tweaking, then Ill bring it all together for the final runs on LN2

And thats where SS Phase really shines, in pretesting and ease of use. That was the same thing I found with the Cascade with chips that could run on it.

LN2 has the ability to dial in a temp and keep it so it handles the load, thats something that Phase and Cascade have a hard time with at times.

But SS Phase, Cascade and LN2 are tools and if you pick the right tool for the job you will get good results. The same thing goes for LN2 pots.

Now a days the costs of LN2 seems to be getting rather steep, for me anyway. All the pots, Dewars, LN2 itself, then to say nothing about the time frame you have to use it in, then dealing with condensation and prep work.

A Cascade does its job by being able to use it with just about no time spent on planning the runs, running out and filling the Dewar which in some places is not easy to get. Condensation is not a real issue and being able to filp a few switches and let the machine start up and away you go. Other issues such as can your place handle the power demand of a Cascade, the noise and heat outputs of some units can simply be to much, who wants to sit next to a screaming machine for a few hours.

But a well made Cascade is a thing of beauty and a joy to work with. One this is based on rotary compressors that has a poor tune and keeped running at max speeds can really be a pain to use.

I think of it like this, a well tuned Cascade is like a car driving down the freeway with a nice steady power output and designed to run in that range, its a pleasure to use. A poorly tuned rotary compressor setup is like sitting in netural with your foot pressed down on the gas and the motor revs like crazy. Makes a lot of noise and shortens the life of the compressors. They do use rotarys in window AC units which do not make near the amount of noise, because they are tunned correctly.


btw the Goose has shipped and on its way, tho it has to go around the world a few times. Really the crew is paddling as fast as they can LOL

pretesting is all and good but I made the top ten in the US with no cold on GPUs and the cascade only ;)

The right tool for the job ;)

What did you use on the CPU ?

Not long now :D

Maybe I should not have picked this shipping company....

5 days counting today :)

4 days eh? 17th?

Ekkk... 3 more days, counting today :clapping:

Remember pictures of the uncrating or it comes back !! :)

Oh, I didn't notice it was just 3 more days :blush:

Man that is a freaking big trip, hopefully the monstacade will arrive safely.

sub zero at a flick of a switch .....

3D heaven

Time to get excited Kal!:thumbsup:

Tomorrow !!! :keeporder::thumbsup::ohcrap:

:jumpin:

Bill, with how it was packed/shipped, is he going to have to let the oil settle in the compressors before firing it up?

You have an independent 20 amp cuircut ready to go supes ? ....

that will help avoid the lights dimming when you kick this puppy on ........... LOL

Nothing on the circuit it'll be used on. :cool3:

Yes let it sit for a few hours before firing that puppy up :thumbsup:

I was gonna say but you beat me to it LOL

I'll let it sit till the weekend before firing it up.