Reason the Fluke's are so expensive is because there calibrated. As far as im concerned though you dont need a thermometer probe thats all that accurate. 1-3 degrees C doesnt really matter.

Here is one for $110 that I like. Has a stand so you can read it at a lower angle without holding it up. Dual probes FTW too. When I go DICE ill be measure temps with my dads AMP clamp\DMM that has a temp probe.

http://www.amazon.com/Ext...=1262612685&sr=8-5

Its hard to find them with the range you want (for LN2 in most cases).

Cheaper yet doesnt give a temp range

http://www.amazon.com/The...1262612685&sr=8-11

There are also multi meters that support a temp probe.

http://www.amazon.com/Ext...1262612781&sr=8-23

The one above looks nice, has two probes.

I use a Mannix dt307 it's simple and about $70 bucks has great temp range and very accurate.

http://www.ambientweather.com/mamidt307.html

Hey Nate, buy me one too

i'll vouch you Extech, i love the pair of TM200's i have. battery life is really good with these units and they are more than enough for benching purposes. my only beef is i can't figure out a way to disable the automatic shut off after 5 minutes or whatever the safety sleep is...but it really doesn't affect me much when benching.

I think I want to build a phase change.  I wonder how much parts I can salvage from a 5000 BTU AC?  I am thinking just saw off the evap and replace it with a block, but somehow I think there will be considerably more involved with it...

voklskier4452

nice setup you got there 3oh6

I loved the i5 6 series review you put up on XS, it was quite entertaining to read, though a little sad considering i just picked up a i5 650

thanks, just remember that half of disappointment comes from high expectations...now that expectations have been lowered, disappointment should go down too

seriously though, you have to keep the source of the content in perspective. i wrote it for the high-end benchmarking crowd with that and only that crowd in mind. the idea of good/bad is fluid and my perspective on hardware is much much different from most. if it can't achieve a top ten result in HWBot, it is bad in my books. obviously that isn't going to be the case for everyone.

hopefully you enjoy the setup, it may be a blast just to overclock even without amazing results. be sure to post up some results here or in the P55 section when you get up and running.

oh yeah...i can tell those we're all gpu's there! witha  212, that's a gpu over clcok. the 3984 is your cpu over clock.

very nice indeed!!

and here you we're having issues...can't see how now...lol

same physx driver or different one?

3oh6

voklskier4452

nice setup you got there 3oh6

I loved the i5 6 series review you put up on XS, it was quite entertaining to read, though a little sad considering i just picked up a i5 650

thanks, just remember that half of disappointment comes from high expectations...now that expectations have been lowered, disappointment should go down too

seriously though, you have to keep the source of the content in perspective. i wrote it for the high-end benchmarking crowd with that and only that crowd in mind. the idea of good/bad is fluid and my perspective on hardware is much much different from most. if it can't achieve a top ten result in HWBot, it is bad in my books. obviously that isn't going to be the case for everyone.

hopefully you enjoy the setup, it may be a blast just to overclock even without amazing results. be sure to post up some results here or in the P55 section when you get up and running.

Well even if this chip turns out to be a bad batch, ive got a i7 860 ready to go as well.   Will also be picking up a Classy and W3540 over the summer.

and yes i will be sure to post up some benchmark results ;)

nateman_doo

SAWEEETT!!!  your more then halfway to 47K!!  OUTSTANDING Q!
217 bclk is a magic number isn't it

That cold front thats been here all week doesn't have anything to do with it does it? 

Yea, and it's supposed to be 10 degrees colder on Friday night!!   "Get it Colder", right?

johnksss

then power was your enemy!
so how much power you running now? total..just 1200 watts?

Yea, just the 1200w.  I'm afraid to attach the TT power express 650W...don't even know if it works.  It might have been fried with my enermax, which is now being RMA'd.

1200 watts ran mine..but it was very close at times...when the peak power draw was at 1350 watts...and i hadn't added my physx card yet...lol (heavily over clocked gpus and cpu)

not yet...im a bit scared with this new bread of cpu...seems they want to be stuck in the low bclk range. i managed to get up to 226, but locked at 227... when i was able to boot 230+ with no problems at all.

everything is different.
and it's no where near where it should be. and the cpu is of the 3900 batch.

new motherboard.  My ram slot was bad.