[ny_driver]

I don't have a chipset block yet, I guess I better put that on my list. I don't really care about getting any more performance out of the gpus, but with 3 in there with air coolers the top 2 won't be getting very much air.....I may have to keep them on a water loop separately.

I won't stand for a loss of 10c on my cpu.

So will -30 get me a few hundred MHz (stable) on the cpu or no? I would love to be able to run this chip @ 4.5GHz(322x14) when I race. It would just somehow be better. I had it stable @ 4242MHz, but 1.6+v seemed like too much even with load temps in the low 40s.

[Kal-EL]

Originally Posted by ny_driver

I don't have a chipset block yet, I guess I better put that on my list. I don't really care about getting any more performance out of the gpus, but with 3 in there with air coolers the top 2 won't be getting very much air.....I may have to keep them on a water loop separately.

I won't stand for a loss of 10c on my cpu.

So will -30 get me a few hundred MHz (stable) on the cpu or no? I would love to be able to run this chip @ 4.5GHz(322x14) when I race. It would just somehow be better. I had it stable @ 4242MHz, but 1.6+v seemed like too much even with load temps in the low 40s.

AMD chip right?
I'm not big on AMD experience and cold, Rich aka Neuromancer could answer those Q's as he's been down the ln2 road with them fairly recently.

[ny_driver]

Video of some guys taking a phenom II to 6.5GHz with liquid nitrogen, and then helium to absolute zero. No cold bug.

[ny_driver]

Man, I'm sitting here staring at this beautiful picture, and wondering about the frost all over the graphics cards. Are they coated with nail polish or something?

And just fucking wow.

[Kal-EL]

Originally Posted by ny_driver

Man, I'm sitting here staring at this beautiful picture, and wondering about the frost all over the graphics cards. Are they coated with nail polish or something?

And just fucking wow.

Hehe, sadly "no", I ran it like that for a total of 3 sessions all frosted up and finally it bit the dust. It was my early trips into sub-zero land and some asshat with alot of experience posted that they didn't use any coating whatsoever on their ln2'd gpu's. SO I lost (2) 9800gx2's that way.

You won't get that kinda bullshit advice around here bud

[Neuromancer]

Originally Posted by ny_driver

I don't have a chipset block yet, I guess I better put that on my list. I don't really care about getting any more performance out of the gpus, but with 3 in there with air coolers the top 2 won't be getting very much air.....I may have to keep them on a water loop separately.

I won't stand for a loss of 10c on my cpu.

So will -30 get me a few hundred MHz (stable) on the cpu or no? I would love to be able to run this chip @ 4.5GHz(322x14) when I race. It would just somehow be better. I had it stable @ 4242MHz, but 1.6+v seemed like too much even with load temps in the low 40s.

Low 40s is fine for load.

Of course with a chiller running... if anything happened that could quickly turn into 60-70C real fast..

I am surprised the CHIV can handle 322 HTREF my exerience with asus baords has not been very good at all for bus clocking. I so gotta sell my chIII now

Think you could drop the multi and see how far you can push the HTREF??? and which BIOS you are using por favor

[ny_driver]

Originally Posted by Kal-EL

Hehe, sadly "no", I ran it like that for a total of 3 sessions all frosted up and finally it bit the dust. It was my early trips into sub-zero land and some asshat with alot of experience posted that they didn't use any coating whatsoever on their ln2'd gpu's. SO I lost (2) 9800gx2's that way.

You won't get that kinda bullshit advice around here bud

Good to hear.

Originally Posted by Neuromancer

Low 40s is fine for load.

Of course with a chiller running... if anything happened that could quickly turn into 60-70C real fast..

I am surprised the CHIV can handle 322 HTREF my exerience with asus baords has not been very good at all for bus clocking. I so gotta sell my chIII now

Think you could drop the multi and see how far you can push the HTREF??? and which BIOS you are using por favor

40s load was just blowing the a/c directly on the rad. No chiller yet.

I'm not 100% sure 320FSB is stable on the board, but another person said he ran 347FSB on the board. I was running 320x12.5 for a couple weeks with 3200MHz NB/2240HT, and 1707 DDR3. I didn't try prime on it at that setting, but it never crashed. The highest I got it to post was like 334 IIRC. One stick of memory died during mobo swapping and since then my 320x12.5 etc...seemed unstable. Waiting on RMA.

I could try to see how high the FSB will go again. Right now I'm @ 308x13 w/3080 NB-2156 HT, and 1642 DDR3 which works very good....it's prime stable for an hour anyways, which considering I had it stable @ 4242MHz before is stable enough for me for now.

lol....the BIOS(0905 btw) allows you to set the FSB up to 600 ....why?

So with -20 or 30c should that give me headroom to overclock higher or will I need to venture into much colder territory?

[ny_driver]

Sorry I must double post to keep the log going.

I have the a/c all apart and the evap in a cooler, as you can see from the pictures, for a test run. I managed to not screw anything up and I only had to bend the pipe a little bit.

Does anyone see any problems so far?

Everything seems to be working good until the compressor shuts off which happens to be when the coolant temperature gets to 0c and it's taking forever to come back on.

When I short the 2 wires to the thermostat I get a readout on the screen that indicates a sensor has gone bad, but the compressor does not stay on. It acts as if there is a thermostat attached to it but there is not.

Right now I have the thermostat attached and taped to the side of the compressor to stay warm, but that doesn't work either.

What is this tube sensor thing? It is attached and it is submerged in the tank....do I leave that alone?

I may have to figure out how to just straight hot-wire it or something. Fortunately I haven't cut the shaft off yet, just in case I can't get it working. We'll get it figured out though.

Ohh I almost forgot......

Originally Posted by Neuromancer

Think you could drop the multi and see how far you can push the HTREF??? and which BIOS you are using por favor

Tested today 340x10 would not post, 335x10 I got a BSOD, and 330x10 passed 5 runs of IBT maximum stress level.

[ny_driver]

I got it figured out!!!I posted again.


It was that tube sensor thing.....I just removed it from where it was attached to the tube 6" deep in the reservoir. Now it's hanging out where it's warm along with the thermostat. Finally sub-zero!!!! More frosty pics coming right up..........

0 Fahrenheit/-16c in this one. -20c right now thoughCOLDER COLDER!!!

EDIT: ohh look at the frost in this one. Simply amazing. UPDATE: been hanging right @ -22c for seems like a couple minutes now............ahhh -23c now.

UPDATE: -27c

................and check this out too. http://hwbot.org/community/submissio...6_mhz?new=true

I wanted to join the OCAlliance team, but didn't have the password. Can I join? ....9-2 I'm in.

UPDATE: -30c after 3 hours. Is the res too big or is that normal? Evap is not completely submerged either if that makes a difference.

It's currently 3 gallons -25F washer fluid, and almost 2 gallons Prestone anti-freeze & distilled water. The mix didn't slush up at all. I have another gallon washer fluid, but I didn't want to put it in because how the fuck am I going to move this thing? Actually 2 people can probably do it pretty easy, just across the room fortunately.

Anyways, it's been a good night. I can't wait to get my board insulated and unleash this beast on my cpu for awhile.