BCR
04-16-2009, 03:21 AM
About 10+ years ago I built a single stage cooling system, I had some R-12 laying around (yes, I am licsensed)
Worked great for a month, until a crack in the gasket, from so much moving around, and condensation build up.
Burnt out the cpu, the socket, and the whole motherboard.
But when it worked, I got it to about 5 degrees (f) at idle and ~12 load.
Then a pop, snap, crack..... (was a MSI board with a AMD chip)
And I never did it again, I was just messing around, back in the days when I was overclocking.
Nowadays, I just use a water cooling setup. (or modified stock air, on my everyday machine(s) (I don't do OC'ng anymore though)
But WOW, this 5 stage setup is just crazy, just to cool a cpu.
Waiting to see what his temps are at load for the i7 core chip. (likely -5c at load or better, if the chip will even boot at that temp???)
http://www.extremecooling.net/index/e107_plugins/forum/forum_viewtopic.php?47785.260
Just insane. Great work, excellent pics.
It is in German, just use a translater (google).
I am to old to bother with overclocking anymore, but if I were to get back into it, I would just do liquid nitrogen instead (or rather dry ice, setup).
Since I would only use it for the minimal time that I OC, and for everyday use, air is fine.
Anyhow enjoy the pics.:icon_bike:
Worked great for a month, until a crack in the gasket, from so much moving around, and condensation build up.
Burnt out the cpu, the socket, and the whole motherboard.
But when it worked, I got it to about 5 degrees (f) at idle and ~12 load.
Then a pop, snap, crack..... (was a MSI board with a AMD chip)
And I never did it again, I was just messing around, back in the days when I was overclocking.
Nowadays, I just use a water cooling setup. (or modified stock air, on my everyday machine(s) (I don't do OC'ng anymore though)
But WOW, this 5 stage setup is just crazy, just to cool a cpu.
Waiting to see what his temps are at load for the i7 core chip. (likely -5c at load or better, if the chip will even boot at that temp???)
http://www.extremecooling.net/index/e107_plugins/forum/forum_viewtopic.php?47785.260
Just insane. Great work, excellent pics.
It is in German, just use a translater (google).
I am to old to bother with overclocking anymore, but if I were to get back into it, I would just do liquid nitrogen instead (or rather dry ice, setup).
Since I would only use it for the minimal time that I OC, and for everyday use, air is fine.
Anyhow enjoy the pics.:icon_bike: