[Witchdoctor]

Thanks Shrimp,

But as I have been saying this will be a 24/7 rig that is contained with in a case's confines, Although I wanted better temps as stated 15C less than ambient water is nothing to scoff at on a 24/7 rig

Buckets of ice, seperate chillers, cold boxes phase, dice, LN2 or simply throwing a 480 out the window all would be viable options for better temps

These methods while effective are not what I am looking for. It all has to fit in a case that you can pick up and carry away. This is for a custom build gamer. at 15C under it's counterparts in the catagory should provide epic results

Pretty much rolling with what i have at this point, I was thinking about your idea of using two of the blocks for cooling them with water but while I am convince this is an epic idea I am alsoi convivced this would condense as I am on the verge of condesing using air. This would be an usatisfactory for the parameters of the build

When I want to bench seriously I would be straping the pot on the bencher anyway

[ShrimpBrime]

Any one can throw a pot on something. That's just sooo easy. Dry Ice right at the walmart even.....

Cpu Block - Rad - Res - Pump - Chiller blocks - back to Cpu block.

Tec hot side

TEC block Rad - Rad -Rad (push pull fans) -res pump - back to tec block.

The hot side TEC blocks will get hot. To optimize heat dissipation, put fans right on those hot ass water blocks.

Expect needing negative Cpu liquid temps in order to perform 40c loads on 130w roughly. -15 to -25 ought to do it. Condensation depends on hose thickness. The thicker the better. Contain the chilled liquid will work best.

Some minor sealing around the Cpu heat sink couldn't hurt for just in case. I don't think you'll get frost on and through the board in my honest opinion. If you move enough air flow around the water block and hoses, you might not see condensation at all.

[Witchdoctor]

I hear ya bro.

BTW,

Nice ride you are sporting these days ..............

[ShrimpBrime]

Originally Posted by Witchdoctor

I hear ya bro.

BTW,

Nice ride you are sporting these days ..............

Couldn't beat the 229 price tag at MicroCenter. A little bit of a drive but worth it IMO.

I should try TEC cooling it? (seriously) I have a peilter that'll handle this at stock. This 3770K actually runs pretty cool at stock on regular water. I was thinking of de-lidding it, but I have troubles enough with the chip past 4.8ghz and I'd hate to run 1.5+ volts just for 5ghz and benchmarking. I know I don't have a single TEC that could handle it alone past probably 1.250v give or take. At least not a 40mm TEC.

Another neat thing I've wanted to try is cold plate heat sinks. TECs need a lot of surface area, especially to be cooled. They are constant heat pumps. http://www.aavid.com/product-group/liquidcoldplates

[Witchdoctor]

What are your temps and core for 4.8 ?

[ShrimpBrime]

1.380v min and 1.410 seems to keep stability better. Temps are in the mid to late 60s core #1 likes to spike the hardest to 72c - settle in temps are in the 60s mid to high short tested 2 hours OCCT and Prime95.

Anything more to the above I can run the chiller up to 1.5v for stability at 5.1ghz. haven't seen 5.2ghz without a blue screen.

Most settings you gave me for the Gene applied and work pretty good for the 5ghz. I did benchamrk Pimod, nothing much more than that.

With HT shut off, 5ghz is in the 60's and with only 2 cores I can get it in the 50's Spikes in the late 60s.

But 5ghz daily stable won't happen with this one unfortunately.

BLCK clock made a max of 107 postable 106 in windows on 35x multi.

additional commentary:

The GTX-480 on the same loop, it clocks 940/2050 pretty much max on the first PCB for the card. It humps along pretty good. If I removed this from the loop, the Cpu temps "should" drop dramatically. I just don't have enough stuff to make 2 loops. Space really isn't a problem....

[Witchdoctor]

Nice results .....

whats your ambient ......... ?

Temps seem very low

[ShrimpBrime]

Ambient is 19c - 22c - Dual 120.2 rads - modded ThermalTake waterblock from BigWater series - Using s775 mounting plates (the board had holes for it! Tubes are 1/2" OD 3/8" ID Nylon clear liquid is a mix of ammonia and alcohol and Thermal take green and CoolerMaster neon reactive Blue and some windshield washer fluid.

So at stock keeping the i7 at around 45c (loaded) give or take unchilled is no problem. I still got to get F@H going for some long hauling. I did let it cruise at 4.2ghz on 1.288v over night. I didn't complete any packets, but it seems to fold the same as my AMD just has more threads to do it with. Surely no doubt it's faster, but the work units are different so I won't know any numbers until I get that itch again.

Aspiring Overclocker

Cute

[Witchdoctor]

Mmonia and alcohole, I have read about but never seen anyone do it, better than distiilled and nuke ?

I think you will like the Intel's , there defenatly the big blocks of the CPU world. Being I don't know what platform I will be building on it is hard to say what clocks I will end up at. But 5GHz 24/7 would be cool, but definatly overkill for most tasks. Who knows if work does not pick up soon I may just be putting my current SB-E platform in it with some new GPU's and possibly a better board.

I would like to see what Haswell brings to the table and if Intel goes the way of TIM or soldering the IHS. hopefully the latter

[ShrimpBrime]

I'd hope for solder myself... better heat transfer.

Told ya I like my diamond paste. Just takes a little bit to settle in