[Bobnova]

Once i have fundage for LN2 (it's expensive here :() i'll be freezing everything, i'm sure.
It looks entirely too fun to freeze things

[Kal-EL]

sigh*

[Hondacity]

Originally Posted by Bobnova

Freezes it, i imagine.

Actually i don't see how it possibly couldn't, i froze ceramique during my last dry ice session

yep you haz that right

Originally Posted by Patch

I suspect Honda just has a curious mind.

I have 3 kids and periodically find things in the bottom of one of my dewars that I did not put there......

thanks you got that right....been an engineer for many years now

"if its not broken, take it apart and fix it"






vimeo is giving me a hard time...i haz the video...2 videos..

finding: ceramique is good for dice.....

for ln2.... once it reached liquid nitrogen temps it was hard...but once it was removed..it was semi liquid in less than say 20second...

[Neuromancer]

so heat it up and crank it down like the guides tell you?

The Idea of thermal paste is not create a joint between the two subjects, but create a material to bond the holes in each. Less is more.

I have 2 tubes of ceramique I purchased like 2 years ago... cuz my AS5 was getting low. MY AS5 still aint dead. It was the big 3 ounce container and we are talking at least hundreds of remounts between the tubes. (between all 3 tubes)

[Hondacity]

i'm benching @ 2.1v on my 32nm cpu.... i'd rather use something else.

anything that is under -190c or so expands...

also its specifications

Temperature limits:

Peak: –150°C to >180°C Long-Term: –150°C to 125°C

[FACE]

Agreed, less is def. more.... I have been spreading a bunch on, clamping down to thin it out. The extra comes out the sides. I'm a spreader though, and that shit is like silly putty.

[Splave]

anyone else have this happen. Im benching around -140c for a while (CBB temp) and then I pull it all the way down to a full pot and when its flying down in temps there is a giant pop from the bottom of the pot and I get a BSOD. Restart and its fine, so im wondering wtf it is. It only happens once per session but it happens every session without fail, ASC related? I do the usual heat up to 70c's and twist the mount to get an even spread and its always a perfect mount but wtf is the popping?

[Bobnova]

I'm not sure there's a thermal paste that doesn't freeze at ln2 temps, ln2's kinda cold


I've been having excellent luck plopping a bunch on, squishing the pot on top, clamping it down, and then running the cpu at normal to slightly elevated volts and light load till it's at 60-70*c, then starting with the cold stuff.
The patterns when i remove the pot look great.

That is, of course, dice.



EDIT:
Thermal expansion and contraction of the cpu would be my guess, and the movement breaks contact with the pins ever so briefly.

[Dentlord]

I never had that happen. I get some popping when pouring way down sometimes but never a BSOD?

[Chuchnit]

I think it's the copper contracting. I noticed that sound too at ~-100c and then again at -120c and -140c+. As for the restart, who knows??