doctoe2260 said:
Hi guys, I'm wondering what kinda clocks people who use pelts are getting. I'm looking at pelting my new rig and want to know if it's worth trying it.
Don't want you taking time to post pics or anything, but CPU model, pelt power rating, idle/load temps and of course, the speed, would be great.
Cheers
messiah is right, you could possibly get away with a high end pelt on a dual core chip but just bear in mind you would need an additional psu or a mega silly watt psu, like a 1kw or similar. Normally people run a meanwell psu as the pelt psu which I believe dedicates 300w straight to the psu.
On top of that you would need a pretty substantial watercooling setup, you can't air cool the hot side of a pelt, they dump out insane amounts of heat so you would be looking at a 120.2 rad as an absolute minimum. Personally I wouldn't run one without a 120.3 attached.
And once you have factored in things like the psu, pump, tubing, rad, res and the pelt you really may as well buy a tuned mach2 that can handle a highly overvolted dual or quad core cpu.
The problem is if you overwhelm a pelt with heat it basically stops functioning and can actually cook your cpu (this may be rubbish but in my head its a fact, iirc they get into a sort of heating cycle rather than a cooling cycle) so there is a very real possibility of trashing your cpu.
Steer well clear, if you haven't already, play with a high end water setup and forget about the extra 200mhz which is all probabilty is all it will net you.
Actually whilst we're on the subject i think (from experience) phase is a waste of time too as its noisy and tricky to fit/maintain and very few of us can make it look at good as Messiahs setup
