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Miss_Man · 05-18-2002, 05:36 AM

Webmasta, most of the rads were free from a guy I know. A chiller would cost more than what I have spent, plus I dont think it will work as well. My Athlon XP 1600+ AGOGA does 2136 mhz max overclock, and 2079 mhz stable running prime 95. Thats at 2.18v, cooled by 2 x 172 watt peltiers running at 22v each. It gives me a load temperature of 21C, at 31C ambient, 34C water. That beats a Vapochill at least. And I will admit that my radiator setup is overkill, 5 radiators ,3 pumps and 7 fans (2 recycling loops) just cooling one CPU, but I had the space and radiators to spare so why not? I reached the point where the water would not drop below 3C above intake air.
Now the additional setup brought me to 6 radiators, 4 pumps and 9 fans. The GPU cooling is on a different loop to make things easier for me. Well I wish some memory makers or experts were here to answer the question of whether chilling ram would give benefits similar to chilling CPU, because I can't tell when my bottleneck is something else. And figuring that, I went to remove my ram cooling from the loop so that my GPU pelt will benefit from improved flow and cooler water. I then went onto to AS epoxy ramsinks to my ram. I guess I should have just left it the way it was since it looked cooler and at least my ram worked. After AS epoxying the ramsinks, my ram wouldnt work any more. I did coat nail varnish over almost very part especially the pins, but I guess somewhere its shorted out (AS is conductive, been proven many occasions). So I removed the ramsinks, cleaned it up and everything, but it still wouldn't work. So I stuck the stickers back on, and RMAed it. Would have to wait about a week for its return, hopefully it doesn't get rejected.
Overall, I'm still left with the impression that ram chilling would yield benefits, but that question still cannot be answered. I mean those guys with low ambient temps usually get higher overclocks from their rams, so temps do matter. I think I'll just stick with this mobo for a little while, I've only used it for around 2 months +.

05-18-2002, 05:36 AM	#41
Miss_Man Cooling Savant Join Date: Dec 2000 Posts: 151	Webmasta, most of the rads were free from a guy I know. A chiller would cost more than what I have spent, plus I dont think it will work as well. My Athlon XP 1600+ AGOGA does 2136 mhz max overclock, and 2079 mhz stable running prime 95. Thats at 2.18v, cooled by 2 x 172 watt peltiers running at 22v each. It gives me a load temperature of 21C, at 31C ambient, 34C water. That beats a Vapochill at least. And I will admit that my radiator setup is overkill, 5 radiators ,3 pumps and 7 fans (2 recycling loops) just cooling one CPU, but I had the space and radiators to spare so why not? I reached the point where the water would not drop below 3C above intake air. Now the additional setup brought me to 6 radiators, 4 pumps and 9 fans. The GPU cooling is on a different loop to make things easier for me. Well I wish some memory makers or experts were here to answer the question of whether chilling ram would give benefits similar to chilling CPU, because I can't tell when my bottleneck is something else. And figuring that, I went to remove my ram cooling from the loop so that my GPU pelt will benefit from improved flow and cooler water. I then went onto to AS epoxy ramsinks to my ram. I guess I should have just left it the way it was since it looked cooler and at least my ram worked. After AS epoxying the ramsinks, my ram wouldnt work any more. I did coat nail varnish over almost very part especially the pins, but I guess somewhere its shorted out (AS is conductive, been proven many occasions). So I removed the ramsinks, cleaned it up and everything, but it still wouldn't work. So I stuck the stickers back on, and RMAed it. Would have to wait about a week for its return, hopefully it doesn't get rejected. Overall, I'm still left with the impression that ram chilling would yield benefits, but that question still cannot be answered. I mean those guys with low ambient temps usually get higher overclocks from their rams, so temps do matter. I think I'll just stick with this mobo for a little while, I've only used it for around 2 months +.