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its_hey_ma

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So, I get bored at work a lot and thought up an interesting idea for air powered supercooling. Before I get in to details, I decided to get the pieces together throughout this week and give it a try. Got it all put together last night and gave it a go. System temps were right around 27 degrees celcius, cpu right around 32 at idle and 40 at full stress, gpu around 30 at idle and 40 full stress. Here's the problem - the system won't stay running. Is it too cold, or is possible to even be too cold? Sometimes windows locks up under a load, sometimes the whole thing just shuts off. I'm thinking maybe its too cold for the psu or harddrive? Any thoughts? Id like to get this going tonight, so any thoughts would help.

I'm going to add a bit more circulation, temps will go up a little but it may help overall. I'm also going to start with a fresh copy of windows 7 and all stock settings to see what it will do.
 
its_hey_ma said:
So, I get bored at work a lot and thought up an interesting idea for air powered supercooling. Before I get in to details, I decided to get the pieces together throughout this week and give it a try. Got it all put together last night and gave it a go. System temps were right around 27 degrees celcius, cpu right around 32 at idle and 40 at full stress, gpu around 30 at idle and 40 full stress. Here's the problem - the system won't stay running. Is it too cold, or is possible to even be too cold? Sometimes windows locks up under a load, sometimes the whole thing just shuts off. I'm thinking maybe its too cold for the psu or harddrive? Any thoughts? Id like to get this going tonight, so any thoughts would help.

I'm going to add a bit more circulation, temps will go up a little but it may help overall. I'm also going to start with a fresh copy of windows 7 and all stock settings to see what it will do.
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you can't have your system too cold. Only when you have your system VERY cold, which won't ever happen with air or liquid cooling, you will need to use ln2, dry ice, liquid helium etc, to ever get that.

If you have an overclock on, that will probably be your problem, it is unstable.

What is your "supercooling"?
 
No overclock on, in fact it is fairly underclocked. I'm sure the CPU and gpu can handle the temps, but would it effect my psu or HD?
 
Over an extended period of time, yes, but It's far better to have cold components than hot ones :P The average HDD can function properly in conditions between -10C and 50C. One advantage of cold components would be you could overclock them extremeely far, especially black edition processors

So how are you going to do it? ^^^ :)
 
Also, the system was stable on a fairly large overclock running just standard air cooling before, I backed it way off before starting this.
 
Yeah I would also like to know your version of supercooling, would like to give it a try myself. There is a video on youtube where some people overclock a pentium 4 to over 5 ghz with liquid nitrogen, so I think you will be ok.
 
OK, you do that :) Those black editions can be pushed really high with sufficient cooling... :D CPU-Z screenshot when you do it please :)
 
its_hey_ma said:
No overclock on, in fact it is fairly underclocked. I'm sure the CPU and gpu can handle the temps, but would it effect my psu or HD?
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Why would you underclock it :confused:

Because you aren't using any kind of sub ambient cooling, all of your temperatures will be above room temperature, which is perfectly fine operating temperatures.

fastdude101 said:
Over an extended period of time, yes, but It's far better to have cold components than hot ones :P The average HDD can function properly in conditions between -10C and 50C. One advantage of cold components would be you could overclock them extremeely far, especially black edition processors

So how are you going to do it? ^^^ :)
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Black edition CPUs don't overclock any better than any other CPU, they are just more flexible and easier to OC with as they have unlocked multipliers. My 720BE in my sig is a POS overclocker, I can get it to 3.5, but to get it stable I need it at ~1.55V, which is getting to frying chip levels. The temps are alright, not going over 45 degrees, however it clearly doesn't OC well. Luckily it is stable as a 955 (4th core unlocked @3.2GHz) however it proves that it is chip dependant how well it will overclock, and not that every one will overclock well
 
It is air cooled, but it is pushing air far below ambient temps. Average air temp going in to the case is 12 degrees celcius.
 
Its underclocked, because the system has a built in "cooling mode" that underclocks to keep things cool. I used this mode just in case something didn't work well so it didn't start over heating. Maybe there's an issue with this setting though, causing my issues?
 
its_hey_ma said:
It is air cooled, but it is pushing air far below ambient temps. Average air temp going in to the case is 12 degrees celcius.
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either phase or peltier or similar?

its_hey_ma said:
Its underclocked, because the system has a built in "cooling mode" that underclocks to keep things cool. I used this mode just in case something didn't work well so it didn't start over heating. Maybe there's an issue with this setting though, causing my issues?
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if you are on about cool 'n quiet or speedstep, no, that won't cause any problems
 
Aastii said:
either phase or peltier or similar?



if you are on about cool 'n quiet or speedstep, no, that won't cause any problems
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Its is a form of phase transfer, I didn't expect it to cool as well as it did but now I'm affraid its cooling too much.
What's the issue with the cool 'n quiet? I have it enabled, but that's just because it comes enabled and I haven't messed with it.
 
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