The word "excessive" comes to mind

[SketchMaster]

Worship the link!



On the bright side, you can Keep a 24 pack of Mountain Dew icy cold for thoes long gaming sessions.

 

[Safeway]

Hah. that's rally funny that everything is plugged in but there are massive ice blocks on both of his $700 cards. I guess he covered EVERYTHING in dielectric grease?

 

[Mrvile]

Wow, is that water frosting on the sides of the tube? I hope he doesn't break anything...well in a way I kinda hope he does

 

[glorygunk]

Thats awesome!

 

[Bona Fide]

604MHz core

Holy CRAP.

 

[Tiamat]

I think that might be Liquid N2 cooling and the condensation from water in the air freezing.

 

[Bona Fide]

Originally posted by: Tiamat
I think that might be Liquid N2 cooling and the condensation from water in the air freezing.

I'm thinking dry ice or liquid nitrogen...could be either. That condensation is just from subzero temps.

 

[Banzai042]

wow, wonder how fast he can get those things up to before they start to have heat issues

 

[Safeway]

Yea, like I said - massive ice blocks on his SLi card. He had to either paint his cards or smear dielectric grease everywhere.

I did at experiment at UT with liquid nitrogen, and it was about -192C I believe.

 

[Corporate Thug]

:shocked:

 

[CraigRT]

cool!
(literally)

 

[Mrvile]

You notice that he only had his CPU clocked to 3.5ghz...which is a HUGE dissappointment when it comes to liqN cooling, and probably heavily bottlenecked the video cards. But I guess the 598/1458 video clock made up for that

 

[imported_Kensai]

:laugh:

 

[hans030390]

uh.........*drools*

its not very pretty...if i had such an open "computer" as that one, i'd probably end up accidentally spilling a drink on it or something...lol

 

[SketchMaster]

Um.. Hans, it's kinda covered in ice. I don't think a cup of coke would do much more.


Edit: wait for it to freeze, chip ice/coke mixture into cup and BAM! Nvida powered slushy!

 

[Elfear]

Originally posted by: Mrvile
You notice that he only had his CPU clocked to 3.5ghz...which is a HUGE dissappointment when it comes to liqN cooling, and probably heavily bottlenecked the video cards. But I guess the 598/1458 video clock made up for that

Actually, a benchable 3.5GHz isn't too disappointing at all. Most of the world-class ocers max around that speed for a 3DMark stable overclock. I've seen suicide shots at 3.9-4.0GHz but nothing stable enough to run some 3D benchies.

 

[sparkyclarky]

Originally posted by: Elfear

Originally posted by: Mrvile
You notice that he only had his CPU clocked to 3.5ghz...which is a HUGE dissappointment when it comes to liqN cooling, and probably heavily bottlenecked the video cards. But I guess the 598/1458 video clock made up for that

Actually, a benchable 3.5GHz isn't too disappointing at all. Most of the world-class ocers max around that speed for a 3DMark stable overclock. I've seen suicide shots at 3.9-4.0GHz but nothing stable enough to run some 3D benchies.

Yeah, I haven't seen insane ratings as far as MHz overclocks from the AMDs. They certainly eek insane performance out, but the actual clock speed isn't through the roof due to the architectural difference vs. say the P4.

 

[mdchesne]

Originally posted by: Bona Fide

Originally posted by: Tiamat
I think that might be Liquid N2 cooling and the condensation from water in the air freezing.

I'm thinking dry ice or liquid nitrogen...could be either. That condensation is just from subzero temps.

dry ice? how would he cool with a solid state coolant?

 

[Stonemason]

Uh, you build a tub of some sort around the gpu/cpu/whatever and fill it with dry ice (-78 degrees celcius!). Probably want some insulation so its not too wasteful, eg a foam container. Pretty simple, and seeing as how C02 doesnt conduct and sublimes (directly from a gas to a solid) so you wont have any pesky liquid to handle (at least, not under pressure). This is all theoretical, I've never used it myself to cool.

 

[mdchesne]

all that said, i think he just filled the pipes with some liquid nitro, hence the top-down view in pic #1

 

[Stonemason]

No, really?

Don't wory, i knew, just i thought you were asking how to do solid cooling?

Originally posted by: mdchesne

Originally posted by: Bona Fide

Originally posted by: Tiamat
I think that might be Liquid N2 cooling and the condensation from water in the air freezing.

I'm thinking dry ice or liquid nitrogen...could be either. That condensation is just from subzero temps.

dry ice? how would he cool with a solid state coolant?

 

[mdchesne]

no, only wondering how the origional guy was thinking the condensation was caused by dry ice. i didn't see a vat or anything so I was wondering if he knew a simpler way to cool via co2

 

[HardWarrior]

Originally posted by: Mrvile
Wow, is that water frosting on the sides of the tube? I hope he doesn't break anything...well in a way I kinda hope he does

:laugh: Next he'll be posting a sob story about how his entire box is rusted out and how he regrets going meatball "extreme."

 

[Hyperlite]

i think hes right, its just those pipes mounted on the mobo with liquid n2 in them. it appears he is going to have some serious condensation problems soon...

though i must say, his 3dmark05 score of 15k is not very impressive. someone here posted a score of almost 10k on a SINGLE 7800gtx yesterday.