Killah Chillah (SCCA)

[OC Maximus]

(SCCA: Self Contained Chilling Apparatus)

Working on a few upgrades and bolting the good ole chiller to a plank. Added a second fan for more efficiency (push/pull).

Hopefully I can get her all done and ready to rock & roll in the next few days.

Just in time for the Sandy Bridge Challenge. :thumbsup:


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[Buckeye]

That looks familiar :)

Good to see you are still using that.

[Kal-EL]

Yah, my Ln2 contact at airgas left to work on a farm :X wtf?
So we're forced to rely heavily on phase cooling till we can find another economic Ln2 source. So far not so good.

[Buckeye]

Oh that sucks :(

Hope you can get that thing going real cold.
When Jinu <spits on the ground> made that for me it was for 24/7 use and no temps below ambient so it would frost up.

I think the charge just needs to be readjusted to make it colder.

[OC Maximus]

Oh yeah, its a stout little thing. A lot of fun to play with. The lowest I've got it down to was -22 with a mix of methanol and antifreeze.

Added a 300w psu to run the fans, pump and inline thermometer.

Everything is mounted and in place. All that's left is cleaning up the wiring and insulating.

http://i464.photobucket.com/albums/rr4/383HEMI/Chiller/6_zpsrqz6enc4.jpg

[Buckeye]

WOW big improvement !

[Kal-EL]

Coming along Chief. :thumbsup:

[OC Maximus]

Thanks! Oh what fun....

Cleaned up the wiring a bit. All Molex and fan connections are accessible and removable, as required. QDC's added for flexibility when plumbing .

Also, removed the AMD mount from the Koolance CPU-360 and cleaned the waterblock. Had a few floaties in there. :)
Installed the Intel mount, and by the looks of it, its going to be a real pain in the arse to insulate properly. :blink:

http://i464.photobucket.com/albums/rr4/383HEMI/Chiller/7_zpspp9sjatr.jpg

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[Kal-EL]

lol

[Buckeye]

In its first life it looked like this ;)

Taken March 16th 2009 ;)

http://imagizer.imageshack.us/v2/800x600q90/3/puc5fn2.jpg (https://imageshack.com/i/03puc5fn2j)

[Kal-EL]

Not bad for such a long time.

[OC Maximus]

Chiller is wired and insulated. Strapped the waterblock to my old sandy bridge setup. Here is some quick no load testing.

Room temp 22c
Loop is mostly Heet (methanol with a splash of antifreeze)
10 min from 22c to 0c
13 min = -10c
15 min = -15c
20 min = -20

http://i464.photobucket.com/albums/rr4/383HEMI/Chiller/20150926_152608_zps7hiixu8p.jpg

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[OC Maximus]

Had the chiller running for 8 hour straight today.

Benched wPrime and Hwbot Prime.

Biggest load she took was during wPrime 1024M. Temp went from -21c down to -14c by the end of the bench.

She's a tough little beast. ;)

[Buckeye]

Very nice ! :)

methanol eh... what type of tubing did you use ?

[OC Maximus]

Standard Homedepot tubing. Zero issues at the moment. No breakdown last time I ran methanol and this tubing. Surprising to say the least.

Started screwing around with the expansion valve today, trying to make her colder, and lost the tune.

Currently tweaking her back to coldest unloaded temp of -23c.

[Kal-EL]

Oh boy.

[OC Maximus]

No worries, she is back on target at -23c. Took me 2 hours though, lol.

[Kal-EL]

No worries, she is back on target at -23c. Took me 2 hours though, lol.
Phew...:ohcrap: