Well, as far as I can tell, the kitties have the only 920 CPU on the planet running at -27c.

mine is at 75 degrees

Notice the minus sign.......
27 degrees BELOW zero.

If I didn't know better I'd swear that PCs cooling was out in Antarctica with a stargate like portal cooling that PC of Yers.

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hey mark i have seen photos of your rig is cooled by freon

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hey mark i have seen photos of your rig is cooled by freon

Frozen, by God, and powered by kitties.

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"Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting." Alan Dean Foster

Maybe it isn't but that's how My present P55 rig was built, so I'm not worried, so it's not the leading edge, it's paid for and yes I can afford it, I'm thrifty, so I can do things others might not as I'm not dependent on credit cards and such, besides its this or I'd probably be spending money elsewhere on who knows what... So don't worry, I've got a plan, but then I can adapt and overcome...

As long as you are aware of what you are dealing with, and able to accept it......

Godspeed and best wishes to you, Victor.

You are not gonna catch the kitties, however.
They happen to know how to make legacy stuff purrrrrrrrr.

Ok change of heart, 7 GTX590's, 12 cpu cores(an i5 750 @ 2.81GHz[can do 4.0GHz on better cooling, I could always get a used i7 870 or something, if their around by 2015] and an i7 940 @ 2.93GHz, all on water, I don't know what that'll do to the swamp cooler, I might need a 15000 pump and I'm using an 11000 now on low cool, but then again I remember Your thread about electric bills and the slow down You've gone through to stay online...

2 Capital ships vs possibly 9 Heavy Cruisers, stay tuned folks, one day this may be interesting...

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The T1 Trust, PRR T1 Class 4-4-4-4 #5550, 1 of America's First HST's

hey mark is that a vw rabbit radiator and is that 2 inch freon lines

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Vic.....I build fire trucks for a living.....
You ever seen even the power steering cooler on a fire truck?

I was building cabs on OT Friday.
I installed a couple of cab heaters......
It occurred to me that they were wonderful heat exchangers.
And you know where my mind went from there.

I actually checked it out......
A crewcab heater unit was worth about 280.00...
Complete with blower.
And a couple of half inch water connections.
That sucker can dump a LOTTA btus.

A ton. More that a CPU and even a couple of GPUs.

I also dreamed of this......
Add to the cooling loop an old recycled water cooler.
A bubbler, water fountain, whatever your local term is.

They are MADE to chill water, not freeze it.
Would have to make some calulations as to BTUs VS watts generated by the crunchers to see what would work, but the concept rather fascinates me.

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hey mark is that a vw rabbit radiator and is that 2 inch freon lines

LOL......
Don't have a clue about the rad.

This thing was cobbled up by a pre-college age kid for me back a number of years ago.

It took him MONTHS to get the refrigerant blend right......

I am serious......it took him about 20 tries to get something that would chill properly, but not kill the compressor if the CPU crashed.

This was a big concern, because if the CPU crashes, the chiller head freezes to way below -30c, and then the refrigerant in the loop becomes liquid.
If this gets sucked back into the compressor, the valves get way f'd, and the thing dies. It cannot handle trying to compress liquid.

I used the term 'slugging' before. Something that only freezers would understand, sorry.

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Folks, I did not mean to talk above you.

I got into the discussion and used a few terms that only few in the world would understand at this point.

I did not mean to dismiss any of you.

The Frozen 920 is a 'only one in it's class' rig.

Nobody else does this anymore.
Nobody else needs to.
Like I said, you don't even have to go to these lengths to achieve 4.1ghz anymore.
I did back in the day.
I had Athlons scream for mercy before Intel woke up.
Damn, they ran soooooooooooo hot.

It has been running this way for over 2 years 24/7.
May die tomorrow.

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hey mark is that a vw rabbit radiator and is that 2 inch freon lines

LOL......
Don't have a clue about the rad.

This thing was cobbled up by a pre-college age kid for me back a number of years ago.

It took him MONTHS to get the refrigerant blend right......

I am serious......it took him about 20 tries to get something that would chill properly, but not kill the compressor if the CPU crashed.

This was a big concern, because if the CPU crashes, the chiller head freezes to way below -30c, and then the refrigerant in the loop becomes liquid.
If this gets sucked back into the compressor, the valves get way f'd, and the thing dies. It cannot handle trying to compress liquid.

I used the term 'slugging' before. Something that only freezers would understand, sorry.

So far I only know of two chilled PCs, the one You have and Steves, My cpus will never be chilled, besides You were the one to call it the "Frozen 920" and I suspect it's the #1 PC and not #5, although if I'm wrong on which is which, I'm ok with that.

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Vic, Steve's rig is water cooled.
Nobody else on Seti runs a compressor, as far as I know.

I got the only freon chilled ozone killing rig left in the game.

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"Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting." Alan Dean Foster

hey mark is that a vw rabbit radiator and is that 2 inch freon lines

LOL......
Don't have a clue about the rad.

This thing was cobbled up by a pre-college age kid for me back a number of years ago.

It took him MONTHS to get the refrigerant blend right......

I am serious......it took him about 20 tries to get something that would chill properly, but not kill the compressor if the CPU crashed.

This was a big concern, because if the CPU crashes, the chiller head freezes to way below -30c, and then the refrigerant in the loop becomes liquid.
If this gets sucked back into the compressor, the valves get way f'd, and the thing dies. It cannot handle trying to compress liquid.

I used the term 'slugging' before. Something that only freezers would understand, sorry.

So far I only know of two chilled PCs, the one You have and Steves, My cpus will never be chilled, besides You were the one to call it the "frozen 920" and I suspect it's the #1 PC and not #5, although if I'm wrong, I'm ok with that.

Vic, Steve's rig is water cooled.
Nobody else on Seti runs a compressor, as far as I know.

His 2 GTX480 cards are water cooled, but then I've seen a pic of His PC and I could have sworn He said He chilled the cpu with an aquarium chiller.

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Nobody else on Seti runs a compressor, as far as I know.

His 2 GTX480 cards are water cooled, but then I've seen a pic of His PC and I could have sworn He said He chilled the cpu with an aquarium chiller.

Hmm......you could be right there.......not sure if he is using passive or active cooling......he would have to speak up.

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"Freedom is just Chaos, with better lighting." Alan Dean Foster

Nobody else on Seti runs a compressor, as far as I know.

His 2 GTX480 cards are water cooled, but then I've seen a pic of His PC and I could have sworn He said He chilled the cpu with an aquarium chiller.

Hmm......you could be right there.......not sure if he is using passive or active cooling......he would have to speak up.

He might show up with a pic, You never know, He could be lurking right now and We'd never know it, not until He broke "radio silence" and posted. :D Oh and the cards are attached to 2 or 3 black ice 140x560 radiators.

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The T1 Trust, PRR T1 Class 4-4-4-4 #5550, 1 of America's First HST's

Nobody else on Seti runs a compressor, as far as I know.

His 2 GTX480 cards are water cooled, but then I've seen a pic of His PC and I could have sworn He said He chilled the cpu with an aquarium chiller.

Hmm......you could be right there.......not sure if he is using passive or active cooling......he would have to speak up.

Found it, I knew Steve had some pics up, somewhere, just couldn't remember where...

Close up.

The whole enchillada...

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Got an email from EK, they only have a few blocks left and from My less expensive supplier they have 3 MIPS blocks in stock, still the cost will either be $167.94 or $182.91 and the MIPS block comes with customs fees, so the difference in total cost to Me will be acceptable, so it just comes down to who has what in August or about 1.5 months from now and yeah I think I'll get the MIPS, but I'll have to see what's available then, so the choice is in fates hands for now.

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My GPU's each have their own radiator, and are running at 55-56°C at the moment. My CPU is water cooled, but instead of a radiator, I use an aquarium chiller. That keeps my coolant at about 16°C, and my CPU at about 57°C.

Steve

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My GPU's each have their own radiator, and are running at 55-56°C at the moment. My CPU is water cooled, but instead of a radiator, I use an aquarium chiller. That keeps my coolant at about 16°C, and my CPU at about 57°C.

Steve

That's still a fantastic setup there Steve.

So far I'm on track and under full steam, in fact I've got two EK FC-590 blocks coming My way, which will be enough for this PC, as then I'll have 3 transparent 590 blocks, It seems a relative of Mine from somewhere to the south decided to send a pair to Me from one of My Amazon lists for My Birthday, their of the nickel plated type, should be here in about a week or so...

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Here's the pic of the HAF-X case for the Asus Rampage 3 Extreme motherboard up on the counter, so far Grace has looked it over and that's it, I tried taking out one of the 6 drive bay covers, but couldn't, so I'll have to look that up as they don't seem to work like in the HAF-932. It came with 3 fans and a few other items, but no casters, thankfully Cooler Master sells those as part of a kit.

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I tried taking out one of the 6 drive bay covers, but couldn't, so I'll have to look that up as they don't seem to work like in the HAF-932.

It's real easy with the HAF X you just push them from each side and they pop out from the front. There's a clip on each side and you just apply enough pressure for them to un-clip. And the bottom two are "hot swap" bays, not just drive covers.

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I tried taking out one of the 6 drive bay covers, but couldn't, so I'll have to look that up as they don't seem to work like in the HAF-932.

It's real easy with the HAF X you just push them from each side and they pop out from the front. There's a clip on each side and you just apply enough pressure for them to un-clip. And the bottom two are "hot swap" bays, not just drive covers.

Thanks, it's not too visible on this HAF, the 932 was easy, this one is almost hidden and yet in plain sight, neat.

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The T1 Trust, PRR T1 Class 4-4-4-4 #5550, 1 of America's First HST's