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Well times are changing around here for bill and I have decided that the MonstaCade will be taking a ride accross the sea to a little island nut case so he could abuse the machine and what ever else he decides to freeze.

The problem here is, or one of them, every single Intel board that I have cold bugs on this beast. I have tried 750, 2x 860's, 870, and now 975XE... none will boot any colder than ~60c.

I just spent the afternoon getting everything all prepped up with a 975XE and kick on the Cascade to find out it will not boot, again :(

Not sure if its these Gigabyte boards that need cold bug mods, I know the P55 boards have one out but I have not tried them yet.

Plus at home here the wife had been out of work well over 8 months, finally getting a really sweet job making good jack but its no good for the mortage company. I am also here at home taking care of o'l Mom and I am not able to get out and work, might have to do something about that also that I really don't want to do. So we may be having to look for a new place here soon :(

Kal and I had been working with a builder to have a 2 stage cascade that has gone south, for a long time now with no sight to the end of it.

But I must honer my comments and do the best that I can for that deal to come to an end in the best way possible. Kal is a great guy and I think its in the best interest for all that I ship the cascade to him. I will handle the jack fruit builder :morpheus:

So as of monday I will be I will be looking for a shipper to have this packaged up for a nice safe trip to the islands.

So good luck and have fun Kal :)

:kneelsuckers:



Thx BILL!

I am sure you will know how to abuse this thing :laughing:

OMG... it will be broken in side of 6 months when the second stage explodes because he tried runnming a 6 GHz gulftown on it


LOL j/k

grats Kal

Nice buy there Kal. I'm sure you will have a lot of fun with it.

@ Bill. If you want some advice on how to ship stuff like that you should hook up with sdumper. He builds cascades and ships them across the country. I'm sure by now he figured it out how to get it done properly so these things arrive safely.

Oh Oh there is no stopping him now....Have vaca time saved up??? LOL

Thanks

Its going to be done by professionals so it arrives nice and safe. I don't think there will be many people on the island who will be able to fix it in case it gets damaged.

Yah, I doubt there are too many refridgeration dudes that will know how to tune it properly. :keeporder:

Oh chit their goes the island

Bow chica bow bow :cool1:

best of luck on it arriving safely :) fingers crossed, have fun!

No luck will be needed. This is going to be crated by the pro's.

Shipping box will be constructed to fit. Cascade will be raised and bolted down so the wheels are off the floor, then rigged in place so it will not move.

Next it will be shrink wrapped and then covered by this Blue Heat Sealed Wrap.
Then crate walls will go up and the insides will be fully packed with padded foam inserts.

Kal promissed he would photo the full unpacking <hint, hint> Kal ;)

how much is it going to cost for shipping ?

1 million dollars!!!!!

Bills not playing around with any chance of this getting damaged.

All builders should do something along these lines, there is only some extra steps involved here.

It would save so many broken units getting delivered to people.

Bills new saying... "There is only one way, the right way" LOL :)

way to go pro Buck, I've been on the bad side of a few SS shipments.

Yeah if the unit already weighs 100 pounds... there is no reason not to go with a wood crate for shipping...

(100 pounds is usually the difference between package and freight costs)

na dude. My SS weighed 64lbs and if it had a crate it would have survived. These things are delicate.

Its more like 150lbs, sucker is not light.

Congrats Kal ....

hope shipping all goes well...

Sub Zero at the flick of a switch will spoil you bro .......

pop a card in and it is like making a cup of coffee

instant results ...................:thumbsup:

Have a ball and now instead of pouring LN2 while you bench you can pour your favorite tropical drinks and watch the show

Still hit the suace for 2D ................LOL

:D:D

Buckeye, did you see the coldbug mods that HiCookie posted???

Yep. Can't skimp on the gravy when shipping especially something of this magnitude and across seas.

Its not just that, well mostly that, but this thing is my baby and it would just be a total waste to not take the necessary precations to make sure it arrived in working order. Otherwise why not just take it out in the back yard and beat on it with a hammer :Dizzy:

Yes I did, those are for P55 boards if I am not mistaken, I can use those as well.

But the one for my outdated X58 Rev 1.0 board which is up to Rev 1.6 now is really a pain, at least for me.

<insert small rant about all this> LOL

OMFG don't get me started on GB boards...





And earlier yeah.. I was saying that 100 pounds is the breaking point on shipping from UPS/Fedex to going freight and having it cost a lot. Past 100 pounds shipping weight there is no reason NOT to add 20 pounds of packaging...

(I ship A LOT of stuff so packaging weight always has to be considered if it don't fit in a flat rate box :) (I tried doing "Flat rate" shipping for stuff I sell on forums... and man its always you California guys that buy it up and Fuchs me on shipping, when its something heavy..)

I ma glad though this transaction is taking place though.. despite the shipping charges.. Must be damn hard to build a monstacade on a tiny little island that is so out there they made a TV series about it called "LOST"

LOL

Oh yah but you watched Gilligan's Island re-runs 100's of times without complainin huh?

Hey I watch anything about an island so friendly its initials are HI :clapping:

Nails scaping across chalk board..................

The Goose has flown, on its way to be crated up :)

The cold cart is coming Kal get ready!

*punches fist into oversized leather glove

"I got this sucker!"

Well I have done my best to make sure it handles the trip the best way possible, I am still very nervious about it :Dizzy:

No worries Bill, if it blows up on me, its an Accident! My wife will be a double millionare with our insurance policies, my son will be set for life and use the proceeds to finance Overclockaholics further. That means FREE hardware for EVERYONE!!!!!!
(its in my WILL, seriously, OCA4LIFE)

Just say nice things to my widow or she'll initiate a Manslaughter case ;) :taunt:

Kal Im willing to step up to the plate and marry her for you bro. Would I inherit the 285 classies and 4x5870s then? rofl

:laughing:

You don't think the Cascade is being shipped without a stowaway do you :eek:

Party @ Kal's place ???? :clapping:

That's what I thought! Kal when can we show up for some NOOB surf, some beer and some OCing?

You forgot some BBQ and lots of beer.

Haviee.................. Crab legs and lobster bro :thumbsup: