eXtreme Air Cooling - Build Log + Overclocking

ZX-10R · 6 Sep 2008 at 10:41

Nice Project Love the concept and cannot wait to see what you finally get them upto

-=Vect0r=- · 6 Sep 2008 at 14:34

Impatiently waiting for benchies!

Happy · 10 Sep 2008 at 16:06

Any word on future updates?

Acid_death69 · 10 Sep 2008 at 16:22

maybe somethings happened :confused:

Happy · 10 Sep 2008 at 16:25

Maybe a freak accident, involving very high powered fans. :eek:

Pneumonic · 10 Sep 2008 at 20:48

started a new job this week so nice and busy... also wanted to update with something special so... watch this space

Acid_death69 · 10 Sep 2008 at 22:41

lol kk then

least nout bad has happened to ya

setter · 11 Sep 2008 at 00:29

Pneumonic said:
started a new job this week so nice and busy... also wanted to update with something special so... watch this space

Cant wait to see it going over 4ghz mate, im a member of the official evga forums and some guys on it were saying a q6600 on air is some kind of joke, cant wait to see how you go mate.

Pneumonic · 11 Sep 2008 at 13:26

well the old setup does over 4ghz primestable... so well want something a little better... I think Mr W3bbo is safe for now.. well until I can get some low ambient runs on this setup

jak731 · 11 Sep 2008 at 14:49

Pneumonic said:
well the old setup does over 4ghz primestable... so well want something a little better... I think Mr W3bbo is safe for now.. well until I can get some low ambient runs on this setup

Buy some industrial air con, it wouldn't be cheating

Pneumonic · 13 Sep 2008 at 16:04

right I am hitting my head against a wall right now... although the new setup has raised the max clock I can run at ambient I am still hitting an issue of temps on ambient runs seems my Q6600 is a right women (tempremental!) and I have issues once cores start hitting the low 60's...

I can prime at 4.032ghz / 4.041ghz / 4.050ghz / 4.059ghz for anything up to 4 hours but all it takes is 1 core to hit 63c and GAME OVER...

I am sure I can get more from the CPU if I can control the temps but I think its a matter of my TRUE not being man enough the CPU slowly increases in temps as the run goes (I can even drop fan speeds and the increase in temps doesnt increase in speed) which suggests to me I have reached a point where the thermal load is to much for the heatsink to move..

So right now its back to the drawing board! Might try and IFX-14 and see if the increased surface area gives me a bit more.. or some night runs where I can have a lower ambient

Monkey Puzzle · 13 Sep 2008 at 18:08

Pneumonic said:
right I am hitting my head against a wall right now... although the new setup has raised the max clock I can run at ambient I am still hitting an issue of temps on ambient runs seems my Q6600 is a right women (tempremental!) and I have issues once cores start hitting the low 60's...

I can prime at 4.032ghz / 4.041ghz / 4.050ghz / 4.059ghz for anything up to 4 hours but all it takes is 1 core to hit 63c and GAME OVER...

I am sure I can get more from the CPU if I can control the temps but I think its a matter of my TRUE not being man enough the CPU slowly increases in temps as the run goes (I can even drop fan speeds and the increase in temps doesnt increase in speed) which suggests to me I have reached a point where the thermal load is to much for the heatsink to move..

So right now its back to the drawing board! Might try and IFX-14 and see if the increased surface area gives me a bit more.. or some night runs where I can have a lower ambient

That sounds like it could be interesting, though presumably you can't fit one of those 14cm beasts between the two sets of heatsink fins... - a proper sealed 14cm duct across the two main heatsink bits and a 12cm delta in a 12cm-8cm plastic converter thing on the backplate heatsink.would be awesome. :cool:

1kiwi · 13 Sep 2008 at 20:30

what are you other temps like?

Dicehunter · 14 Sep 2008 at 03:47

out of interest as im modding my case what paint did you use for the black parts and how many coats, what type and what was the order of coating, i know its asking a lot but i cant find this info in your thread

Pneumonic · 14 Sep 2008 at 23:03

beh* said:
what are you other temps like?

everything is cool to the touch, RAM heatsinks are directly in the path of the CPU fan so RAM is cold.. northbridge has a little fan blowing over it the whole northbridge / mosfet cooling lart is cool

Pneumonic · 14 Sep 2008 at 23:05

DF1986 said:
out of interest as im modding my case what paint did you use for the black parts and how many coats, what type and what was the order of coating, i know its asking a lot but i cant find this info in your thread

Just metal paint from local well known hardware store! Basically the case was striped down removed most of the rivets to so its all screw based now.. then everything got wet sanded with 800 the 1200 grit.. Then applied an two coats of undercoat and two coats of main coat.. once each coat had dried got sanded with 1200 grit.. where I wanted a matt finish I left it some parts got sprayed with a lacqure (sp!) coating

PhoenixUK · 19 Sep 2008 at 14:34

Pneumonic said:
right I am hitting my head against a wall right now... although the new setup has raised the max clock I can run at ambient I am still hitting an issue of temps on ambient runs seems my Q6600 is a right women (tempremental!) and I have issues once cores start hitting the low 60's...

I can prime at 4.032ghz / 4.041ghz / 4.050ghz / 4.059ghz for anything up to 4 hours but all it takes is 1 core to hit 63c and GAME OVER...

I am sure I can get more from the CPU if I can control the temps but I think its a matter of my TRUE not being man enough the CPU slowly increases in temps as the run goes (I can even drop fan speeds and the increase in temps doesnt increase in speed) which suggests to me I have reached a point where the thermal load is to much for the heatsink to move..

So right now its back to the drawing board! Might try and IFX-14 and see if the increased surface area gives me a bit more.. or some night runs where I can have a lower ambient

Time for scythe orochii ?

I think you could slap 3rd fan on that beast, and its almost three times as big as TRUE.

gt_junkie · 19 Sep 2008 at 14:43

Alternatively you could have a bash with the new all copper TRUE.

1.8kg's of pure cooling goodness.

Bet it'll still need lapping though!

gt

Pneumonic · 19 Sep 2008 at 15:07

PhoenixUK said:
Time for scythe orochii ?
I think you could slap 3rd fan on that beast, and its almost three times as big as TRUE.

Might look into it but it fins are not to dense not sure what sort of surface area you are getting in comparison to a TRUE with dense fins... although would have been nice if they had used a real fan on that test rather than some 500RPM nancy boy

V|per · 19 Sep 2008 at 15:11

PhoenixUK said:
Time for scythe orochii ?

gt_junkie said:
Alternatively you could have a bash with the new all copper TRUE.

+1 for the Orochi, will the fans blowing directly onto the cpu socket not be clearly the winning answer?