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- Sep 13, 2015
So I had a chance to try my hand at Dice cooling today and figured I would share my results and hopefully get some questions answered. I apologize in advance for the crappy pics, I snapped them in haste with my phone.
First, Pics of the setup.
Second, some nice results (Unfortunately I cannot submit any of these at the bot yet as I do not want to lose my novice status for a little yet)
Please note that I did not do a lot of tweaking on these as my main goal was to learn the basics of handling the dice. Also, everything was run on Win7 so superpi took a serious hit.
Third, my questions,
1: During this testing I had an issue with the acetone gelling up almost to the consistency of runny mashed potatoes. From reading other threads I do not believe this is normal. I'm assuming I got a bad batch of acetone that had water in it?
2: When running XTU it kept reporting temps in the 90-100c range and noted that the cpu was throttling. I'm assuming this was from a bad mount. I had no way of monitoring the actual temps as my temp probe is currently at my place of work. Please see pics below for the mount after I removed it.
3: When running any multi threaded bench I did not seem to gain much if any headroom as compared to my water system. I was able to see a marked improvement in my max clock and single threaded bench runs. I am assuming that this is the same as in question #2 and ultimately due to a bad mount.
4: To help with not having a repeat of a bad mount how does everyone check their mounts, I do not have a feel for this mounting system yet and didn't want to crank on it for fear of crushing the cpu.
Well I'm sure I will come up with more questions as we go along but this should get us started.
Thanks,
Lochekey
First, Pics of the setup.
Second, some nice results (Unfortunately I cannot submit any of these at the bot yet as I do not want to lose my novice status for a little yet)
Please note that I did not do a lot of tweaking on these as my main goal was to learn the basics of handling the dice. Also, everything was run on Win7 so superpi took a serious hit.
Third, my questions,
1: During this testing I had an issue with the acetone gelling up almost to the consistency of runny mashed potatoes. From reading other threads I do not believe this is normal. I'm assuming I got a bad batch of acetone that had water in it?
2: When running XTU it kept reporting temps in the 90-100c range and noted that the cpu was throttling. I'm assuming this was from a bad mount. I had no way of monitoring the actual temps as my temp probe is currently at my place of work. Please see pics below for the mount after I removed it.
3: When running any multi threaded bench I did not seem to gain much if any headroom as compared to my water system. I was able to see a marked improvement in my max clock and single threaded bench runs. I am assuming that this is the same as in question #2 and ultimately due to a bad mount.
4: To help with not having a repeat of a bad mount how does everyone check their mounts, I do not have a feel for this mounting system yet and didn't want to crank on it for fear of crushing the cpu.
Well I'm sure I will come up with more questions as we go along but this should get us started.
Thanks,
Lochekey