Brwmogazos
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Received my unit this morning just to find out that the guy at the reception had left the box sitting on its side, ignoring the 4 huge "this side up" arrows...
Oh well left the unit sitting in my room and it took a while till i had the LCD unit installed.
straight away i noticed the evap tube is a lot lot more flexible.
the unit looks identical as the mach 2 but has 4 rubber fit underneith.
the right side of the cover has a little mark-bend from the compressor as it was hitting it during transportation i guess...
right away i started installing the intel CPU kit which had been changed since the one i had with my mach 2.
this one has only room for the heater on the back plate now(its not as deep) and has a shorter allen key which is a pain now to use.
i used an extra washer before the spring on the two screws used to fit the evap and started tightening the 4 screws on the back plate just to find out the two left ones(bottom and top) wouldnt get harder as i carried on screwing..i am sure the plate was installed properly they seemed to never tighten...i guess i got a defective cpu kit that may be causing not as good contact as needed...dunno yet-time will tell i am sure phil will sort me out if i need to replace the cpu kit...never seen any better service anywhere else
i moved with my hand both sides of the mounting kit and it seemed rigid so i installed the evap right away.
So here are some pics of the Unit..will post some too in a few hours + a few results with temps.
With my Intel P4 3.0C SL6WU my temps are -34C reported by MBM @ 1.74-1.76V @ 4GHZ
the evap remains @ -47C with the fans in auto @1060RPM for the fans
running prime with small FFTs selected i get -19 -18C @ the same Vcore @ 4.1+Ghz
The unit seems to be slightly quieter than the Mach 2 i used to have.
I was getting -18C with my mach 2 and 1.7V selected in the bios running my 2.8M0 cpu @ 3855mhz and the Vcore was undervolting to like 1.62V IIRC before doing the mod. That is the cpu temp @ load...@ idle i was getting arround -32C average.
Dunno if i am getting good contact as my cpu kit is prolly busted i will sort it out though.
Oh well left the unit sitting in my room and it took a while till i had the LCD unit installed.
straight away i noticed the evap tube is a lot lot more flexible.
the unit looks identical as the mach 2 but has 4 rubber fit underneith.
the right side of the cover has a little mark-bend from the compressor as it was hitting it during transportation i guess...
right away i started installing the intel CPU kit which had been changed since the one i had with my mach 2.
this one has only room for the heater on the back plate now(its not as deep) and has a shorter allen key which is a pain now to use.
i used an extra washer before the spring on the two screws used to fit the evap and started tightening the 4 screws on the back plate just to find out the two left ones(bottom and top) wouldnt get harder as i carried on screwing..i am sure the plate was installed properly they seemed to never tighten...i guess i got a defective cpu kit that may be causing not as good contact as needed...dunno yet-time will tell i am sure phil will sort me out if i need to replace the cpu kit...never seen any better service anywhere else
i moved with my hand both sides of the mounting kit and it seemed rigid so i installed the evap right away.
So here are some pics of the Unit..will post some too in a few hours + a few results with temps.
With my Intel P4 3.0C SL6WU my temps are -34C reported by MBM @ 1.74-1.76V @ 4GHZ
the evap remains @ -47C with the fans in auto @1060RPM for the fans
running prime with small FFTs selected i get -19 -18C @ the same Vcore @ 4.1+Ghz
The unit seems to be slightly quieter than the Mach 2 i used to have.
I was getting -18C with my mach 2 and 1.7V selected in the bios running my 2.8M0 cpu @ 3855mhz and the Vcore was undervolting to like 1.62V IIRC before doing the mod. That is the cpu temp @ load...@ idle i was getting arround -32C average.
Dunno if i am getting good contact as my cpu kit is prolly busted i will sort it out though.
