images have been deleted? I wanted to see this, try imageshack they are better.

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this block here?  it is a copper sweat cap, soldered to a pipe.  nothing secret at all.  If you haven't soldered any kind of pipe before it may take you a while.  practice makes perfect.  ;)

Sweet Nate!!!  Q6600 fun comin' up!

dlb134

no I meant the block that is on the get it colder 2 thread.

oh... THAT block... heh....... still secret my friend, but not for long... 

I have no way to tell how much it weighs.  I don't have a scale :(

Entire pot sanded/lapped down to 120

Post some results when you get them nate, I would like to see how that compares to my dice pot.  As usual, looking great man!

400 grit:

1500 grit:

Looking much better

Looks like another one of those "SLEEPER TROLL ACCOUNTS". They join months ago awaiting the time to come out of seclusion and hit and run. Just report it as abuse and the mods will take care of it.

EVGATech_ShannonR

i took care of it.   nateman....   would you mind removing the quote of his comment to clean up the thread..

Thank you

Cleaning the post out is one thing but did you clean it's account out? It joined on 9/15/2009 and only post was this one. Def. a troll account.

I have absolutly no expierience with dice pots, nor have ever actually seen or held one nor have I done any real research, so all my assumptions are only that.  I am using this thread to gain knowledge, so correct any of my errors in assumption.

This is in my mind how a dice or l2n pot works.. and maybe I am half correct here because the boiling point of l2n is somewhere in the negative 360 degree range.. therfore the l2n would not stay as a liquid once you poured it into the pot, however, it would considerably cool the metal pot which would inturn cool the CPU for a period of time until the CPU heats the pot up again.. and maybe this is not true with dice (or either for that matter)...  maybe it stick around longer..   So if my theory on the operation of a pot is correct, would it be benificial to add more metal to the bottom of the pot inorder for it to have more area to store the cold from the l2n... I would assume anyway up to a certain point that it get too thick...

So if this is the case, would your design benifit from adding some extra copper in the bottom section (I only assume the cap is not very thick)?

I am very intrigued by your creation...  good job..  I am interested in how well it performs compared to others on the market.

AWW WHAT the hell...??!  who took my troll away from meeeee?????

my preciousss trooolllll!!

bansheesho

I have absolutly no expierience with dice pots, nor have ever actually seen or held one nor have I done any real research, so all my assumptions are only that.  I am using this thread to gain knowledge, so correct any of my errors in assumption.

This is in my mind how a dice or l2n pot works.. and maybe I am half correct here because the boiling point of l2n is somewhere in the negative 360 degree range.. therfore the l2n would not stay as a liquid once you poured it into the pot, however, it would considerably cool the metal pot which would inturn cool the CPU for a period of time until the CPU heats the pot up again.. and maybe this is not true with dice (or either for that matter)...  maybe it stick around longer..   So if my theory on the operation of a pot is correct, would it be benificial to add more metal to the bottom of the pot inorder for it to have more area to store the cold from the l2n... I would assume anyway up to a certain point that it get too thick...

So if this is the case, would your design benifit from adding some extra copper in the bottom section (I only assume the cap is not very thick)?

I am very intrigued by your creation...  good job..  I am interested in how well it performs compared to others on the market.

As far as overclocking goes, a heavier pot is ideal to control what we call "swing"  This is how much the temp will vary during load.  A pot like nateman's will have very high swing due to the low mass, this has its own advantages.  When your CPU or motherboard gets to cold it will get what is referred to as a "cold bug".  In order to alleviate that problem you either have to wait for the CPU to warm up or use a torch to bring the temp up.  The lower mass of this pot will greatly reduce the amount of time it will take to heat up.  Conversely when you have a much heavier pot, the time it will take to warm up is obviously much higher.  But this means when you have found the sweet spot of your CPU,  it will take considerably less ln2/dice to maintain those temperatures.