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FEATURED Marathon SIII:April, 3DMark03
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I thank you guys for addition knowledge on cooling. I did some dice again last night (some much easier leaving it in cooler) and was able to get around -5c. I didn't have much and thought I was done when the temps went back up. I got up this morning to turn on the PC and it shut right back down. I looked for the cause and found I still had a small block of dice on the rad, that completely froze the coolant inside. I had to spend 8-10 minutes defrosting the rad 
I think next time, I will try the ice water. From my knowledge : If you add salt to the ice water, the salt allows the ice to get to a lower temp before melting. Is salt bad for your rad???
I'm running a XFX and a Sapphire reference 290X and they can get hot fast. When benching like you guys with 290x's, mine hit 30-33c, and start throttling. This also does not allow much headroom for my CPU.
If you guys don't mined me being in this thread, I might not be part of the team yet, but I do love the conversations
Here's my run with 03, I had to keep the CPU low so that the 290x would not throttle as bad.
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I think next time, I will try the ice water. From my knowledge : If you add salt to the ice water, the salt allows the ice to get to a lower temp before melting. Is salt bad for your rad???I'm running a XFX and a Sapphire reference 290X and they can get hot fast. When benching like you guys with 290x's, mine hit 30-33c, and start throttling. This also does not allow much headroom for my CPU.
If you guys don't mined me being in this thread, I might not be part of the team yet, but I do love the conversations
Here's my run with 03, I had to keep the CPU low so that the 290x would not throttle as bad.
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Don't use salt, it will tear up your rad
Not sure I understand the capacity that you are using DICE ?
Are you just throwing it in a bucket, or do you have a pot ?
if in a bucket what are you activating it with ?
Acetone would not be very good for a rad either ....
On another note, CPU should be max here, 3D clocks are secondary,
use the 13.11 beta or the 13.12 and 5 lod
good luck and welcome to the team Madd
Not sure I understand the capacity that you are using DICE ?
Are you just throwing it in a bucket, or do you have a pot ?
if in a bucket what are you activating it with ?
Acetone would not be very good for a rad either ....
On another note, CPU should be max here, 3D clocks are secondary,
use the 13.11 beta or the 13.12 and 5 lod
good luck and welcome to the team Madd
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Is there a way to check how many posts you have submitted????
I was able to get 1 run of 3D Mark Vantage before I lost my cooling. I got a score of 33253 @ 5Ghz on 1 290X without to much throttling. The card stayed around 22-24c.
Thank You For Your Time
And Any helpful Knowledge
I was able to get 1 run of 3D Mark Vantage before I lost my cooling. I got a score of 33253 @ 5Ghz on 1 290X without to much throttling. The card stayed around 22-24c.
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First time with dice. I placed the rad in the cooler and then the dice on top. I covered the cooler with several towels to hold in the cold. I did not use a activator, which is why I'm looking at ice water for my next try.
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Not sure any knowledge I have is helpful .... 
As far as how many posts you have ? i have no idea where that would be ?
I would not worry about it , you will have enough posts sooner or later , not a big deal
the driver you have is better for Vantage, thought we were talking about 03
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Yes you would be better off with plain ice water
If you go DICE grab a pot and do it up right
As far as how many posts you have ? i have no idea where that would be ?
I would not worry about it , you will have enough posts sooner or later , not a big deal
the driver you have is better for Vantage, thought we were talking about 03
Edit:
Yes you would be better off with plain ice water
If you go DICE grab a pot and do it up right
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Are you referring to the 12.14 Omega drivers, that are known to be handy capped in OpenCL????
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I am not referring to anything other than the 13.11 or 13.12 will do better in 03
Not really up on AMD drivers TBH as I have to fight every time just to get them to work .... lol
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Not sure any knowledge I have is helpful ....
As far as how many posts you have ? i have no idea where that would be ?
I would not worry about it , you will have enough posts sooner or later , not a big deal
the driver you have is better for Vantage, thought we were talking about 03
Edit:
Yes you would be better off with plain ice water
If you go DICE grab a pot and do it up right
I had just upgraded from 14.9, that has better performance in OpenCL like in Folding At Home. I was trying to raise my Catzilla score from the last Comp.We are still on '03 but it is more CPU dependent ( IE, I LOVE INTEL) so my AMD falls short in that area
If My Wife lets me have another build before this one dies, I will definitely be looking at slapping a pot on it.
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Best of luck Madd
I think I can shed some light on this. Mandrake(I believe) had mentioned using dice on his rads. Difference is he runs antifreeze in his lines. This is what Johan and I do as well when hanging or rads out of the window in the winter. (Free ice water).
I have experimented with salt water and I was able to get to around -20c before it froze. That was with about 20% salt ratio (very hight). I never actually ran salt water through my lines as it was suggested to me to try antifreeze. I've had that down to about -15c but wasn't able to go colder as it was a mild winter here in michigan.
Anyhow, the short story MM is you should look into running a 50/50 mix of glycol and water if you're looking make a hybrid water loop with DICE.
Good luck.
I have experimented with salt water and I was able to get to around -20c before it froze. That was with about 20% salt ratio (very hight). I never actually ran salt water through my lines as it was suggested to me to try antifreeze. I've had that down to about -15c but wasn't able to go colder as it was a mild winter here in michigan.
Anyhow, the short story MM is you should look into running a 50/50 mix of glycol and water if you're looking make a hybrid water loop with DICE.
Good luck.
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It will be included in the next Windows release. So that you have to pay more money for a program that should have been/or was in Windows.
The word right now, is HWbot will not accept scores from Win 8/8.1, Win Server 2012, and Win 10.
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I was looking at pulling one of my coleman or igloo coolers out of the garage ( Will have to go do it anyway before summer). Dump a bunch of ice in it, place the rad underneath layers of ice, and then pour in a gallon ( 4 Liters) of distilled water. Ice is a lot cheaper than Dice and when a small amount of salt is add to the ice water, it allows the ice to drop several degrees below it's melting point.
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We need two more categorizes: Gpu: any GPU no more than 4 cards
Hint, hint Johan45
Which categorizes??? I have 5 R9 280X's attached to a UD7 that I fold with. 1 Sapphire Dual X, Sapphire Toxic OC, HIS iceQ2 Boost, and 2 ASUS DCII TOP editions.
Quad is the max for sli/CFx.
doesn't your board have pcie dip switches to just disable some? Why not do that?See page 1, Cpu: any GPU no more than 2 cards
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