My £150 eBay bargain...

[almighty15]

My £150 bargain!!

This is it currently, being completely striped and is currently at the powder coaters....

Phase unit before

Primer

Paint drying.

2500k 24/7 clock

Everything should be back from the powder coaters ready for reassembly next week....

 

[dugdiamond]

specs please

 

[almighty15]

specs please

5.3ghz 2500k ( Has a max multi of x55 )
Gigabyte Z77-UD5H
8Gb Geil Corsa DDR3
AMD 5770
OCZ ZT 750w PSU
120Gb A-data SSD

 

[seumasbeathan]

2500K at 5.3ghz? Thats not gonna last for long

 

[jamesriley94]

2500K at 5.3ghz? Thats not gonna last for long

It can do at temps that cold

 

[seumasbeathan]

Oh :L I didnt look at the temps, but still 1.5vcore

 

[ruthless_villain]

yeah i wouldnt be too happy with my chip @ 1.5ghz

 

[OcSurfer]

2500K at 5.3ghz? Thats not gonna last for long

its hard to explain but the essence is that it is a combination of temperature and voltage that cause the atoms in the chip to move, therefore eventually breaking it, well because you take the heat element away so far into the negatives, it substantially reduces the effect

 

[almighty15]

Max safe is 1.52v and I'm running it at 1.5v at -33c

Sub-zero massively reduces electron migration and infact my chip at that voltage is possibly safer then your chips on air or water because of how cold it is, my 2500k loads a good 80c colder then the average 2500k

 

[jamesriley94]

Can I ask how loud the system is? How much was the cooling, and is it worth it?

 

[almighty15]

Can I ask how loud the system is? How much was the cooling, and is it worth it?

Not very loud at all when running, a bit noticible for the first 5-10 minutes then it settles right down.

It cost me £150 but to buy a new one for someone would cost £600-800

 

[jamesriley94]

Oh was that just the cooling for £150? I thought that was the case :L

It looks good - not sure if it's want it in my system unless it was just a little project - which spending 600-800 quid would be a little expensive

 

[yassarikhan786]

Very impressive results dude, nicely done

 

[NastyFighter]

Damn that looks cool and very nice results! Instant buy for me, although I doubt I'll ever see this passing by though.

How is the power consumption like?

 

[almighty15]

Damn that looks cool and very nice results! Instant buy for me, although I doubt I'll ever see this passing by though.

How is the power consumption like?

Phase unit pulls around 250w during load and around 220w at idle, it is high but when you work it out on a monthly basis it's not actually that bad in terms of extra cost.

I'm on 13p per Kw/h so it's costing like 13p for 4 hours...

 

[NastyFighter]

Thats indeed not that bad. Any chance you can split up the cooling and cool the GPU as well? That would really be a cool thing.

 

[almighty15]

Thats indeed not that bad. Any chance you can split up the cooling and cool the GPU as well? That would really be a cool thing.

Not without a decent amount of work and tbh there's no real need to use it on GPU's as they don't benefit from the cold as much as CPU's do.

 

[dugdiamond]

nice points for the oc3d hwbot team !!!

 

[nepas]

Jelly!!

 

[Liarma]

Wow nice temps. very cool! (no pun intended )