CoolIT Systems

moved some stuff around, got more 'air space' around the Eliminator I added to the loop several months back.....

Air flow is king....

Just by giving the fins more 'air space' to draw fresh cool air I grabbed another 2/3*c better cooling, basically now idling at pure ambient (21*c), every once and awhile it dips below ambients....

All I did was move a DVD burner up a slot, then elevated the Eliminator about 1/2" off the wooden plater I attached it to intitially, the curved fins were touching at the high point on the plater on the bottom, the top blue heat exchanger was cramed up close to the bottom of the DVD burner.......really no room for good air flow.... each side had and still has about 3/4" to draw.....

bing bang boom....

I am on a roll, finally got 8 gigs of Mems to run @1066 stable on an AMD rig after 6 months of tinkering (965 AM3 CPU solved that problem), and while the thinking cap was on overdrive, solved a small issue with the cooling efficientcy.....

Food for thought....

laterzzzzz...............

Awesome stuff bldegle2.

Them Eliminators can be tricky. Cause the way the RAD is on them they need clearance on all 360 degrees. I found by mounting my Eliminator hanging off the back of my case instead of on the inside the case (rear 120 fan mount) I shaved around 10c off temps on 1 of my old systems. (Raidmax Sagitta Case)

Big congrats on the RAM... I really hate screwing with timings and all that.

Mind you, I am using lower speed (75CFM Fluid bearing S-Flex instead of the recommended/stock 100CFM+ 120mm used on the FE) on both units and also on the Rad, trying to keep it a bit quieter....., and I hear you on the outside mount.....i have a huge case (Armour 8004), so I wanted to keep everything inside except for the Rad.....and thus the original crampage and resulting reduced air flow with the initial eliminator mount.....

I would imagine that 100+CFM fannage could really get me into the 'condensation' temp area, been there before (still have a Prometia phase unit, retired due to hi electrical costs to run constantly, the maintenence, the friggin' dielectric grease packs with each processor swap, and the HUGE weight, I had both the unit and case bolted together)....and speaking of the 'dielectric grease', one must remember that a properly modded Freezone setup like some of us are evolving into uber units with stacked and combined cooling, one can reach temps that could require, at the very least, a dielectric grease bath for the pins and socket surrounded by a vapor block, I have reusable stuff from the Promie so I have that covered....if you see condensation on your blue blocks, you could just as easily be getting 'hidden' condensation on the 'unseen' bottom of the CPU between the pins and Ziff, when this happens, weird and squirrely stuff with CPU operations, LOL.....covering the blue heat exchanger blocks with the Aramax stuff may get rid of the visable condensation, it also further reduces your temps, taking the CPU to even lower temps, you see where I am going with this.....

Yup, the ramski breakthrough was neat, same MB, same ram, just needed to bury myself in long and boring test sessions, I would rather sit and watch paint dry, if you get my drift......

laterzzzz...................