The key to dice IMO is crushing the dice before you start benching.
Little tiny pieces (think coarse corn meal, or standard aquarium gravel at the largest) to snow is best, by far.
I like to put about 3oz of acetone in my koolance v2, that way if i can see the middle bit i know i need more dice.
The dice/acetone mixture should be just starting to feel thickish when you stir it, like a 75% melted McD's milkshake with some sand in it. If it stirs like water you don't have enough, and if it stirs like mud you have too much.
The big chunks you see people use are an excellent example of doing it wrong.
Bonus tip: Boot warm with the pot attached, then put powdered dice in till the temp sensors bug, then put a tiny bit of acetone in, more dice, tiny acetone, more dice, then acetone till you have as much as you want.
If you put acetone in first then dice, or throw a lot of acetone on the dry dice, you'll get an acetone/dice volcano. Not good, the acetone'll eat your keyboard, face, eyes(!!) and probably motherboard, and dice in the eye is a fairly major problem as well. Personally i stay way the hell away from the pot when i put the first acetone in.
Oh yeah, if you want to add mass to a dice pot, get a .25" thick copper coldplate from anybody that'll sell one to you and put it under the pot. Presto! More mass. Also helps fat bottomed pots (like the koolance v2) clear tall caps near the socket.
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