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Thank you George!

Can hold a finger whole day long on that plastic, it also sweats very little. Insulation is a breeze, I have practically benched without it. New video: 1166 6-11-8-27 1T (Tcwl=6) SuperPI 32M ain't so bad from these crappy PSCs @ 1.92Vdd @ - 120°C.

The only aluminum thing on that photo is the CPU pot extension and the memory adapters What do we want? Exceleram! When do we want it? Now! Why? Because we are cheap bastards

@Calathea: Knife cut to the PCB I suppose? When you cut ground it's usually OK but if you cut signal then....

Tried two 3228B415 yesterday, lol, utter crap. I may try couple more today. That was no. 16 & no. 17 as far as Ivy Bridge CPUs go

One of the most useful reviews ever. Thanks a heap!

@Mike: Yes, I've seen a chip with a cut in the packaging that was unable to run dual channel afterwards.

Both 1) naked (gelid) 2) reapplied IHS (gelid - ihs - gelid) with high density polyurethane rubber glue (same as stock). Same effect

CPU doesn't scale anymore. It's OK if I keep it at ~ -130°C under LN2 but once I go lower than this temperature it's game over, no more scaling. It's a 200-250MHz drop from original IHS. I have now seen three CPUs with exactly the same behavour. P.S.: I use Gelid GC-Extreme since we are sitting on a ton of this stuff.

I just learned the hard way not to remove the IHS for benching anything lower than ~ -100°C It's great for air, water and single-stage cooling, hell even cascade cooling gains noticeably! But LN2...

@Roman: Correct! It also has great chemical resistance

Last two are too true to be funnay

No, the bottom plastic is designed to stay within the Intel specifications. Will work on 99% of the motherboards (always gotta leave that 1% out, just in case ).

PJ, u da man!

Hehe, looks like great mind think alike. My plexi/acetal/copper pot (not to be confused with EK/SF3D design) which is also used by Petri features connected internal chambers in order to flood the internals of the pot and prevent dry-out of certain chambers I think Nick Shih was also satisfied with it when he achieved ~ 7.3GHz on a A10-5800K All in all great looking product, Roman! :up:

Where's water cooling?

:banana:

The official results are up: http://www.ekwb.com/news/319/19/HWBOT-competition-winners-announced/ Winners please contact me at "n dot tivadar at ekwb dot com"

EDITED: Masbo your time is off, fix it!

To je bilo sve za ovu karticu, ide ona novom vlastniku

Congrats to all participants. We will declare winner on Friday (due to Cebit) since we need to verify the results.

Yes, PhysX is over 12k, sorry buddy

Hehe, remember, best 01 gets the title even if four are tied. Theoretically the last one will get nothing, even though he has 11 points :>

We have three people on the top of the ladder with 11 points, interesting! 5 days to go, time to step up!

Thanks Massman!