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3D Rev.1 DICE GPU pot, done cheap
Been working on this project for the last 2 weeks or so. Yes I'd love to have a Tek-9 fat but @ $220 :blush: I can't afford it right now. So I thought I'd try seeing what I could whip up. Before this I had no clue how to solder copper only the stuff I'd done with an iron. I used a pen torch I got for $10, a few shims of copper from home depot and an old CPU waterblock I had to grind down with a rotary tool. The block is about 1/4" thick with a 1/2" stand off in the middle, the total cost was around $35 to make it :thumbsup:. Plan on using the pot with DICE within the week. I want to see what kind of temps the pot will hold with and without load. Not expecting to much out of it but we'll see lol
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Any pics of the internals?
Love it when people use homemade pots :D look forward to some results |
Ghetto pot FTW .... :thumbsup:
looks great 3DH .......... nice job , I'm in for the results |
No internals sorry man, at the time I didn't think anyone would really care to see them.
Lawl Ghetto sounds way to pricey for this project :laughing: |
Home Brew FTW homie :)
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that looks promising...1000mhz class gpu pot :D
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FTW dude :)
almost looks pornographic though :P :D |
Overclockaholic at its best. :D
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In all seriousness, that seems to be a good build you have. If it'll hold temps where they need to be, you can give your competition the shaft with it. There I go again with the bad jokes... :D OK.... I've been wanting to build one myself as of late but with the cost of copper pipe and the way they sell it (By the stick / 20ft sticks of 2' pipe @ $270.00+), I'll have to rely on luck to do it. Hoping to find a few scrap pieces of pipe to do it with but the big thing would be to construct a base. I have access to a 25 ton press for doing some of the work and that helps. Have an idea what I could do but won't know how well it will work until I actually build it and test it. |
that looks nice bro!
i am working on a pot project myself man for cpu tho |
Awesome work there. That's the best part of benching.
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You can honestly say you did it and the success will only inspire you to go further. Good luck with the pot man and show us what it can do - I'm sure you'll get some good numbers from it. :thumbsup: |
I was able to test the my GPU pot out the other day works better than I thought. Best load temp with my 260gtx was -50c under DICE. Sorry to report the session didn't go well at all, first I was using my 9500GT and 9600GT on my P55 rig I run 05 which gave me scores of about 1200. I'm not sure if both these cards had a cold slow bug or what also maybe the fact that I've only had my cards @ 0c when benching. So I decided to move on to my 260gtx and 4-way with a 920. The card acted a lot better under cold but took me 2 hrs to figure out I needed hardly any voltage to get the OC's I was used to seeing under water. I found out my 9600 had a CBB of -40c with CB -50c. All in all it was the worst DICE session I've had so far :Dizzy: really made me feel like an Epic noob. Guess I have a lot to learn about subzero GPU benching....
Here's some pics of the session. http://img193.imageshack.us/img193/6...c04247k.th.jpg Uploaded with ImageShack.us http://img152.imageshack.us/img152/8...c04251b.th.jpg Uploaded with ImageShack.us http://img26.imageshack.us/img26/1314/dsc04256sm.th.jpg Uploaded with ImageShack.us http://img80.imageshack.us/img80/4763/dsc04253u.th.jpg Uploaded with ImageShack.us Any thoughts or tips I could try next time from the pros would be a great help :thumbsup:! The downside to pot is lack of mass I have to fill it after every run but at the price of $35 I can live with that. |
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