[Build Log] Passively Cooled 400W/300W TDP System Under 100$

[iamdarkyoshi]

1 minute ago, 0ld_Chicken said:

Even better!  nicely done

Thanks! Cant wait to overvolt and overclock the shit out of this 8800GTS, which is my otherwise useless test subject  

[thekeemo]

What about the vapour in the heatpipes?

[iHardware Shelden]

12 minutes ago, iamdarkyoshi said:

Thanks! Cant wait to overvolt and overclock the shit out of this 8800GTS, which is my otherwise useless test subject  

Break some records and/or be able to say you have the fastest 8800GTS? 

[iamdarkyoshi]

1 minute ago, thekeemo said:

What about the vapour in the heatpipes?

Presumably still inside of them, I never cut them open or anything. By the way, you wanted to know what happens when you break one open? Pretty much absolutely nothing. What happens when you heat one up too much? The damn thing explodes very forcefully. It happens at least 4 hours ago and my ears are still ringing. Needless to say I soldered this one with gun-range headphones and my safety squints on my face

[iamdarkyoshi]

1 minute ago, iHardware Shelden said:

Break some records and/or be able to say you have the fastest 8800GTS? 

@Laysprobably could beat me

[iHardware Shelden]

Just now, iamdarkyoshi said:

@Laysprobably could beat me

Competition is always the fun part  

[0ld_Chicken]

5 minutes ago, iamdarkyoshi said:

Thanks! Cant wait to overvolt and overclock the shit out of this 8800GTS, which is my otherwise useless test subject  

cant wait to see how she cools!

[iamdarkyoshi]

Just now, iHardware Shelden said:

Competition is always the fun part  

I have no dry ice or liquid nitrogen. And it still probably wont be as powerful as a bottom range card of today

[thekeemo]

2 minutes ago, iamdarkyoshi said:

Presumably still inside of them, I never cut them open or anything. By the way, you wanted to know what happens when you break one open? Pretty much absolutely nothing. What happens when you heat one up too much? The damn thing explodes very forcefully. It happens at least 4 hours ago and my ears are still ringing. Needless to say I soldered this one with gun-range headphones and my safety squints on my face

Welcome to the tinnitus club

[iamdarkyoshi]

1 minute ago, 0ld_Chicken said:

cant wait to see how she cools!

Or violently explodes....

[iamdarkyoshi]

1 minute ago, thekeemo said:

Welcome to the tinnitus club

Its nearly gone now. But DAMN was that loud. Thankfully I do NOT have copper lodged into my eye socket. Gonna be a little more careful next time

[iHardware Shelden]

Just now, iamdarkyoshi said:

I have no dry ice or liquid nitrogen. And it still probably wont be as powerful as a bottom range card of today

"Insert another GTX 590 joke here" 

 

Go for fastest air cooled 8800GTS?

[thekeemo]

1 minute ago, iamdarkyoshi said:

Its nearly gone now. But DAMN was that loud. Thankfully I do NOT have copper lodged into my eye socket. Gonna be a little more careful next time

its not going away

[iamdarkyoshi]

1 minute ago, thekeemo said:

its not going away

The ringing is going away. It is basically gone now. This happened before when a soda bottle couldnt handle the pressure I put into it. Except that I couldnt hear for the rest of the day. How in the holy fuck do I always score perfect on my hearing tests

[thekeemo]

2 minutes ago, iamdarkyoshi said:

The ringing is going away. It is basically gone now. This happened before when a soda bottle couldnt handle the pressure I put into it. Except that I couldnt hear for the rest of the day. How in the holy fuck do I always score perfect on my hearing tests

meanwhile an unknown event means that I want to smash my computer with a sledgehammer

[iamdarkyoshi]

1 minute ago, thekeemo said:

meanwhile an unknown event means that I want to smash my computer with a sledgehammer

                  ________
          _jgN########Ngg_
      _N##N@@""  ""9NN##Np_
     d###P                       N####p
     "^^"                            T####
                                      d###P
                                _g###@F
                          _gN##@P
                     gN###F"
                    d###F
                  0###F
                  0###F
                  0###F
                  "NN@'

                   ___
                  q###r
                     ""

[iHardware Shelden]

7 minutes ago, iamdarkyoshi said:

The ringing is going away. It is basically gone now. This happened before when a soda bottle couldnt handle the pressure I put into it. Except that I couldnt hear for the rest of the day. How in the holy fuck do I always score perfect on my hearing tests

"Doc I was bending this and folding that and it all blew up in my face!"

       "It's ok all boys do that."

"No no you don't understand like it almost took out my eye!"

       "Oh well that does not sound good, we are going to need to do some test is looks like"

"On my computer or me?"

      "Wait what does your computer have to do with this?"

"The computer I was working on almost resulted in my loosing me eye doc..."

      "Oh... yea I knew that...."

 

 

 

I have nothing better to do right now if you can't tell already  

[thekeemo]

1 minute ago, iamdarkyoshi said:

                  ________
          _jgN########Ngg_
      _N##N@@""  ""9NN##Np_
     d###P                       N####p
     "^^"                            T####
                                      d###P
                                _g###@F
                          _gN##@P
                     gN###F"
                    d###F
                  0###F
                  0###F
                  0###F
                  "NN@'

                   ___
                  q###r
                     ""

I got tinnitus for reasons unknown and the noise from my computer irritates it.

[iamdarkyoshi]

1 minute ago, iHardware Shelden said:

I have nothing better to do right now if you can't tell already  

Thats always good

1 minute ago, thekeemo said:

I got tinnitus for reasons unknown and the noise from my computer irritates it.

That sucks

[iHardware Shelden]

5 minutes ago, thekeemo said:

meanwhile an unknown event means that I want to smash my computer with a sledgehammer

Don't worry, I am trying to overclock this Pentium and it does not want to go higher than 3.6 @ 1.4v so we are in the same boat 

[iamdarkyoshi]

1 minute ago, iHardware Shelden said:

Don't worry, I am trying to overclock this Pentium and it does not want to go higher than 3.6 @ 1.4v so we are in the same boat 

Ha

 

I had my 3930k at like 5ghz at that voltage

 

Didnt leave it for long, fucker was throwing heat everywhere

[iHardware Shelden]

Just now, iamdarkyoshi said:

Ha

 

I had my 3930k at like 5ghz at that voltage

 

Didnt leave it for long, fucker was throwing heat everywhere

Yea I am going ham on the Cinebench thread now... it's like an addiction, plus it is fun seeing how all the CPUs stack up with each other and gives me a reason to overclock my 775 chips to death    

[Stefan1024]

1 hour ago, iamdarkyoshi said:

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This looks vry professional and if the heat pipes still work, it will do a great job in spreading the heat.

You can test the heat pipes by putting one end in hot water. The other side should heat up within seconds.

[iamdarkyoshi]

12 minutes ago, Stefan1024 said:

This looks vry professional and if the heat pipes still work, it will do a great job in spreading the heat.

You can test the heat pipes by putting one end in hot water. The other side should heat up within seconds.

They all seem to work! Pretty good for a price of nothing! Thanks for the kind words, I hope to keep this thread updated. Tomorrow I will be picking up a crapload more aluminum

[iamdarkyoshi]

4 minutes ago, DEcobra11 said:

This reminds me of old Dell cooling

Every heatsink here was from an HP, actually