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Im not trying to derail your thread but how much wattage does the monstacade draw at load?
I bet electrical costs top $100/month to run it. I prefer to tweak on air cooling b4 I go ln2.
I think for the temp control ln2 is a better bet anyday over a cascade, just my opinion tho.
Here my breakdown:
$25 per dewar fill (lasts me ~3 weeks)
$200 - 50l taylor wharton
$300 - F1EE which can be updated to fit any socket for just a couple dollars for a new holddown/backplate
So I assume that for $1600 the mostercade/something similar could be had? I would need to fill my dewar ~50 times to equal the original cost. not including electrical usage each month to run that monster. 50 dewar fills = 150 weeks or almost 3 years of running ln2. in 3 years i bet the monstacade needs a regas and retune. that isnt free either...
Just my $.02
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That dewar fill can't be lasting 3 weeks if your benching. You can kill 50L in an afternoon pretty quick with a quad and a video card. Also, you've got an amazing price at .50$ a liter, most people pay 2-3$.
And having an ADJUSTABLE cascade means it won't ever need a retune unless the world goes insane, and intel isn't going to produce a 9000W chip again anytime soon (the 840EE was never that popular past being a space heater after all!)
Having proper features from the beginning, like a hot gas bypass, allows you to have massive range of temperature control as well.