Didn't make much headway tonight in hwbot points.  I beat my previous bests in single 295 3dm05/06/vantage (38,677/29,923/P26,892), but not by much.  I'll submit them tomorrow and maybe I'll get a point out of them.  Later guys....

johnksss

this guys whole profile is suspect...not an evga part in there...
so how does he even get on to modriggs?
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Good question.

I figured out what happened to all my points. Those evil 5970s took all the scores!

Interested yet? Final sizes aren't done with the bottom.

It's my project Nate!

Close up of bottom.




Full inside view:






Outside full view:






Test fit on real size 4 Way SLI Classified.






Cool huh?

Hmm Just was thinking that the Acetone is liquid so it would 'flow' into the holes and then the DICE would chill it, so it would have a LN2-like effect. Also, holes are like a million times easier to do from my point of view. How much would it impact performance?

It will work just fine Halo. 

If you are going with holes, i would guess bigger. Possibly if you had 5 very large holes, it might help. It could possibly help in that the chunks of DICE were smaller than the holes, and would fall in them, which would cool the acetone closest to the proc lower. (did that make any sense?)


Also, my 750i FTW, q9300 setup from last night:




I only did SuperPi b/c i didn't have a ton of time. I got around 14.6s at my best, which isn't very good...I can guarantee the board is the limiting factor. I guess i'll test the q9300 on the DFI p35 and see what i can do. But i am going to keep it in the 750i FTW for a while to do some 3D tests with SLI 8800gs's.

heh... how about that dice pot john

Halo, more surface area is always better.  The acetone is actually the material doing the thermal transfer from the dice chunks, to the copper.  The more surface area touching acetone, the better thermal transfer you are going to have. 

doing it all at the same time
watching the game
playing aliens vs predator
benching
forums

  So I have come to the conclusion for ME that XP is not really any better than  win-7. Yeah the cpu score in 3D06 is better but crashes a lot for ME, and noticed little to no gain in any benches, 2 days of frustration fighting with XP. Just had to vent that.

I like xp better 7 still has some issues especially when it is left on folding for long periods of time (i'm running xp 64 too hahaha). I think I've had at least 10 os's on my pc so far xp 32 xp64 vista64 server 03 server08 various linux distros 7-64bit beta rc final. Right now I'm back at xp it is the most stable for me.

give the computers a rest... bench after the game. 
then we can tear it up again ;)

awalleyeguy

johnksss

because your cpu voltage is too high for xp..

speculation of course.

I have tried it all over the place, but perhaps that is the problem.

i felt the same way when i loaded up xp for benching...was like yeah right..going back to win 7....then the next go round i started taking my time and working back up from scratch using xp..seems they we're not the same so i made some changes and now my scores are higher in xp...i was about to throw it out as well....lol

xxrabid93

If you are going with holes, i would guess bigger. Possibly if you had 5 very large holes, it might help. It could possibly help in that the chunks of DICE were smaller than the holes, and would fall in them, which would cool the acetone closest to the proc lower. (did that make any sense?)

It actually makes a lot of sense. Thanks.