I use denatured alcohol...I would think about 15 lbs. would be enough for the first go. It does not keep well.

• 10 lbs should be good for a nice session
• Usually comes in a plastic bags or pellets
• I use a fat head hammer to crush into dust while still in the bag
• pour a bunch of crushed/dusted DICE into a wooden bowl and use a table spoon to feed the pot
• DICE submliminates rapidly and does not keep in your freezer at all. Any extra will not last two days.

1. Mount your pot snug
2. check insulation around base of pot/cpu socket
3. power on motherboard, enter os, check temp readings
4. put pc under load while monitoring temps (wprime is good)
5. Look for temperature delta at load between POT temp probe and software readout
6. If temperature delta looks good and normal then you have good contact/mount
7. scoop a few spoons of DICE into the pot, pour a small amount of acetone (just enough to be 3mm above the bottom of the pot
8. Add more DICE (be carefull of volcanoe acetone, at first acetone is room temp and may volcanoe out a bit as it cools)
9. Start clockin.

If you are using alcohol instead of acetone, you shouldnt get as much volcanoe action. ALcohol will vapor off and you will need to keep adding for time to time more than with the acetone. Alcohol will gel up at the bottom so make sure to use a screw driver to mix it up down there.

Depending on your insulation, remove the pot as soon as possible after benching, remove the cpu and let the socket area dry out normally or use a hairdryer. (I use compressed air after my dice/LN2 sessions)

You're saying to do this temp delta checking with no DICE in the pot?.....And do you mean 3mm above the top of the holes/bottom of the pot?

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I always check the deltas to see if the pot has a good mount. Going forward with a bad mount will get your cpu cold but under load it'll crap out and could result in a damaged chip during one of those spikes.

I say 3mm above the bottom of the holes because you just need the DICE at teh bottom to interact with the acetone to make the base cold. You save tons of DICE this way rather than liquifying all your DICE at once.

Great info!! Taking notes....

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So fill the holes with crushed DICE and then just barely cover it with acetone? Sounds easy. Thanks for the tutorial! :thumbsup:

Thanks. Gotta start somewhere.

Two ways of doing it, fill pot about half way and guestimate the amont of acetone that would fill holes and cover about 3mm of bottom (this reduces the initial volcanoe effect)


and fill holes, scoop dice in and pour a lil more acetone till 3mm.


No volcanoe, fill pot with DICE, pour acetone