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Originally Posted by Kal-EL
- 10 lbs should be good for a nice session
- Usually comes in a plastic bags or pellets
- I use a fat head hammer to crush into dust while still in the bag
- pour a bunch of crushed/dusted DICE into a wooden bowl and use a table spoon to feed the pot
- DICE submliminates rapidly and does not keep in your freezer at all. Any extra will not last two days.
- Mount your pot snug
- check insulation around base of pot/cpu socket
- power on motherboard, enter os, check temp readings
- put pc under load while monitoring temps (wprime is good)
- Look for temperature delta at load between POT temp probe and software readout
- If temperature delta looks good and normal then you have good contact/mount
- scoop a few spoons of DICE into the pot, pour a small amount of acetone (just enough to be 3mm above the bottom of the pot
- Add more DICE (be carefull of volcanoe acetone, at first acetone is room temp and may volcanoe out a bit as it cools)
- Start clockin.
If you are using alcohol instead of acetone, you shouldnt get as much volcanoe action. ALcohol will vapor off and you will need to keep adding for time to time more than with the acetone. Alcohol will gel up at the bottom so make sure to use a screw driver to mix it up down there. |
I buy 20+ pounds for a session but I run each test 10-15 times...
Use what is available to crush. I have a 5lb maul.. I hit it with the big side of the head not hte striking side.
I put a big old block of it in the bag its in in the shopping bag and then put it in a contractoers bag. (3Mil min) then beat the piss out of it. Done it on the driveway too made little difference except you can easy up the work by just throwing it a few times
I also dont use a bowl I use a cup that I keep in hte cooler with the crushed ice in hte bag squashed up to preserve it...)
Not saying I am right or Kal is wrong... just some differences. salad bowl just seems like too much surface area...
Everything else is spot on. Don't matter if you use a snocone maker to get your DIce snow... long as it is snow
And the rest is awesome sauce