Wisconsin Winter Cooling

fusion509

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• Jan 18, 2009

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It is offical that -11degrese fahrenheit is the best cooling system. My friend put his computer in his crawl space by his room and got his cpu temps at full load 6 degreese celius. his system is a Q6600, 2 8800 gtx 640 mb, and he improved his 3d mark 06 score by 4000 points. He was able to keep his gpu temps at 16 degreese celius idel.

COLD DAYS RULE!!

 

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fusion509 said:

It is offical that -11degrese fahrenheit is the best cooling system. My friend put his computer in his crawl space by his room and got his cpu temps at full load 6 degreese celius. his system is a Q6600, 2 8800 gtx 640 mb, and he improved his 3d mark 06 score by 4000 points. He was able to keep his gpu temps at 16 degreese celius idel.

COLD DAYS RULE!!

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You guys are too much!

 

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Hehehe last year I took my P4 to 3.6GHz at 3*C couldn't bench it tho cause the GFX card was blowing up. I just opened the window and stuck my computer up to it.

 

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The ghetto extreme "open window" method does work. I did it last year when it got below 10*F here. It was around 0*F yesterday and I thought about dragging the entire system outside again just to do some benching.

 

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A few years ago here in Wi, I was watercooling. I thought why not open the window and see what temps I can get. At full load my temps were 0c, no idea about idle has my compu-nurse once it hit 0c it flipped out.

 

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watch that subzero water cooling... once it gets solid it doesn't work very well

 

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lol ... you should just do what I did and put a small rad you can stick out the window at the end of your rig

 

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aerick

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• Jan 18, 2009

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Gotta love Wisconsin. I live in madtown (Madison)

 

hank123

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• Jan 23, 2009

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colorado gets punty cold. talked to the room mate bout maken a plexiglass glass window for my room and putting a rad in it. I sure i could have my q6600 running at 4.0G 24/7

 

jcw122

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Nothin like ghetto extreme cooling! Hahaha great stuff

 

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UPDATE:
It is starting to get cold here in Wisconsin. I might have some time to get some pics of my WWC setup and results. Temps in my area look like high 20s low 30s.

 

Bobnova

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Toss some antifreeze (or alcohol, but that might eat the tubing) in there and go for sub-freezing cooling

 

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I to will be WWCing within the next couple of weeks maybe even this weekend so results will be coming soon.

 

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fusion509

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The temperature forecast for this weekend is high of 9 degrees Fahrenheit and -3 as the low. It looks like this weekend is my opportunity WWC.

UPDATE at this moment compwizpro and I are WWCing and getting great temps. The temp out side is 35.4f but is droping.

 

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fusion509

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Well its a little bit late to be doing this but i have been very busy recently, but here is the results of the WWC that happened last weekend. It was a little disappointing because the temp outside was 35f. Never the less it was kinda cold.

First here is the setup on compwizpro's porch. My comp on the right his left.

By fusion509, shot with DMC-FZ18 at 2009-12-19

Here is the temp outside.

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This is compwizpro's WWC power supply because when he overclocks his psu does not have enough Amps to power his graphics card.

Here is me running gputool to overclock my cards. Nice thing is my temps never when above 22c for my 2 cards.

Had to take off that side panel to check for condensation on the hdd.

By fusion509, shot with DMC-FZ18 at 2009-12-19

Good old 3dmark 06!

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I know that theses are not the best but here are some other benchmark results.

By fusion509 at 2009-12-19

By fusion509 at 2009-12-19

By fusion509 at 2009-12-19

Hopefully we will be doing some WWC over the Christmas break. The weather still looks like it will be in the 20s-30s. So more will be on its way.

 

nightelph

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• Dec 20, 2009

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Holy img rez. Glad you're getting some OC'ing done.

 

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nightelph said:

Holy img rez.

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Ya i know that the images are huge. what is the best way to post them?

 

Hipcrostino

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• Feb 8, 2010

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a program called fotosizer with reduce them nicly

 

GIXXERGUY6

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I know what you mean. If I was closer or had a wireless card or cat5 that long my pc would be in the attic right now, or in the laundry room(insulated but not heated) it's like 30 out there, and at night it's lower. I also told my buddy I was going to put my pc in his garage during the winter old garage hardly insulated 30-40 in the winter.

 

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Heh I benched one time when it was about -40 (C and F are the same @ this point ) I loved the -deg cpu temps The water ended up slushing up after a reset even with anti freeze in the lines =)