Insulation the eVGA 680i Walkthrough (56k Need Not Apply)

d44ve · May 24, 2007

OK.... right now are just the pictures. I am not completely finished.....

I will be adding the text and the walkthrough shortly

GO BLUE!! =)

t_ski · May 24, 2007

Looking good Dave. You need to come over and hook me up one of these days.

d44ve · May 24, 2007

I will be in Detroit for Christmas... we can meet up then

d44ve · May 30, 2007

Hey guys... I havent had a chance to finish this write up yet. I have been busy working on another project for you.

This should be done in the next week or so

Zeratul_uy · May 30, 2007

Looks good

can ya tell us the costs ^^

nav3 · May 30, 2007

Thats sick, what kind of temps are you expecting, I hope you get some crazy overclocks.

Kasparz · May 30, 2007

What tec and what cpu are you using?

d44ve · May 31, 2007

Zeratul_uy said:
Looks good can ya tell us the costs ^^

The costs for all the insulation parts? Very little!

Lets see....

Plastic Dip : 6.99
Insulation Tape : 2.99
Rubber Cement : 2.99
Neoprene : 1.99

And everything was bought at Lowes except for the neoprene rubber. I got that at Crazy PC

HEY, DONT FORGET TO THANK ME!

d44ve · May 31, 2007

Kasparz said:
What tec and what cpu are you using?

226watt TEC and e6600 CPU

I am running a MEANWELL 320-S secondary PSU for the TEC and PUMPS

Kasparz · May 31, 2007

I would not recommend to run heavily clocked conroe with 226w tec. You wont see any majot improvement over good watercooling, but you will be fighting with 400w heatload and your electric bill.

d44ve · May 31, 2007

Kasparz said:
I would not recommend to run heavily clocked conroe with 226w tec. You wont see any majot improvement over good watercooling, but you will be fighting with 400w heatload and your electric bill.

I have been running this same setup with my Striker Extreme and my e6600 at 3.7ghz with no problems.

On water, I couldnt get past 3.55 and even at that my idle temps were 45c-50c

with the TEC at 3.6 It wont go above 30c under a LOAD.

So I am not to sure what you are refering to

Kasparz · May 31, 2007

Crappy cpu you have. Some e6600 can be stable 3.8-4.0Ghz with really good watercooling setup. Is 200Mhz worth that mess? Tec consumes about same amount of electricity as all your system does.

Eric_Cartman · May 31, 2007

tec cooling is nice because it will get you below ambient, hence the need for the insulation

it is worth it to a lot of people, i'm not one of them, but they are out there

d44ve · Jun 1, 2007

Kasparz said:
Crappy cpu you have. Some e6600 can be stable 3.8-4.0Ghz with really good watercooling setup. Is 200Mhz worth that mess? Tec consumes about same amount of electricity as all your system does.

LOL.... crappy CPU? You crack me up!

Show me more than 3 people running above 3.8ghz on water alone on a e6600.

What is your e6600 running at? I really hope you have one, cause otherwise you are just talking out of your ass and need to move on. :rolleyes:

EDIT : BTW I can hit 3.9ghz

FOXCONN1115 · Jun 1, 2007

looks like a really good way to start a fire or produce hardware failure. lol

d44ve · Jun 1, 2007

FOXCONN1115 said:
looks like a really good way to start a fire or produce hardware failure. lol

Help me out here.... what do you see wrong? Did I miss something?

I am always up for advice especially if I overlooked something

DaMulta · Jun 1, 2007

Hey d44ve can you show us how to install the TEC?

Did you use the plastic dip on the front side too?

d44ve · Jun 1, 2007

DaMulta said:
Hey d44ve can you show us how to install the TEC?

Absolutly!

I will do another small write up on that too.

Right now I am on vacation, so I do not have access to my computer. But I would be more than happy to do that for ya. :toast:

EDIT : Do you have any specific questions right now? Or just curious in general?

Kursah · Jun 1, 2007

d44ve said:
LOL.... crappy CPU? You crack me up!

Show me more than 3 people running above 3.8ghz on water alone on a e6600.

What is your e6600 running at? I really hope you have one, cause otherwise you are just talking out of your ass and need to move on.

EDIT : BTW I can hit 3.9ghz

Gotta agree with ya D44ve, I really don't see many 6600's running that fast, and I have seen many overclocked 6600s, air and water, not so much on TEC's. I like your ingenuity dude, and that's a great OC, and I hate it when people talk out of their ass on something and for some reason "won't" show what they have, but that's why theres those like you who try different things to show how well or dismal they perform. Great thread.

DaMulta · Jun 1, 2007

Well I was wondering how it works, because I've heard very little on them. I think about modding mine if I knew kindda how to do it.

Or maybe modding a reg heatsink on my video card with a TEC.

d44ve · Jun 1, 2007

are you running water on your video card?

DaMulta · Jun 1, 2007

Not yet..been thinking about it....could I buy a copper plate and THIS

Then put the TEC in between the two and soder the copper together?

well it's copper I could drill holes for screws.

d44ve · Jun 1, 2007

you can place the tec between the GPU and the heatsink.

The only problem is that I am not 100% sure that cooler would be able to cool the hot side of the TEC well enough.

You are cooling your video card, right? For that all you would really need is a 175w TEC.

The next problem you run into is powering the TEC. These things are power hogs. How many watts is your PSU running?

DaMulta · Jun 1, 2007

750watt, 60 amps over 4 rails

d44ve · Jun 1, 2007

eh... that SHOULD be enough.

The next problem is then insulating everything so that you do no get condensation and kill everything.

Are you in the US?

Processor	Intel E6600 @ 4.2GHZ Wo0t!
Motherboard	ASUS Striker Extreme & eVGA 680i A1
Cooling	Phase Change !!
Memory	OCZ SLI 1066MHZ (2GB)
Video Card(s)	EVGA 8800 GTX
Storage	Western Digital 320 GB
Case	Antec 900
Power Supply	Lian-Li V2000
Software	Vista Ultimate

System Name	My i7 Beast
Processor	Intel Core i7 6800K
Motherboard	Asus X99-A II
Cooling	Nickel-plated EK Supremacy EVO, D5 with XSPC Bayres & BIX Quad Radiator
Memory	4 x 8GB EVGA SuperSC DDR4-3200
Video Card(s)	EVGA 1080 SuperClocked
Storage	Samsung 950 Pro 256GB m.2 SSD + 480GB Sandisk storage SSD
Display(s)	Three Asus 24" VW246H LCD's
Case	Silverstone TJ07
Audio Device(s)	Onboard
Power Supply	Corsair AX1200
Keyboard	Corsair K95
Software	Windows 10 x64 Pro

Processor	Intel E6600 @ 4.2GHZ Wo0t!
Motherboard	ASUS Striker Extreme & eVGA 680i A1
Cooling	Phase Change !!
Memory	OCZ SLI 1066MHZ (2GB)
Video Card(s)	EVGA 8800 GTX
Storage	Western Digital 320 GB
Case	Antec 900
Power Supply	Lian-Li V2000
Software	Vista Ultimate

Processor	Intel E6600 @ 4.2GHZ Wo0t!
Motherboard	ASUS Striker Extreme & eVGA 680i A1
Cooling	Phase Change !!
Memory	OCZ SLI 1066MHZ (2GB)
Video Card(s)	EVGA 8800 GTX
Storage	Western Digital 320 GB
Case	Antec 900
Power Supply	Lian-Li V2000
Software	Vista Ultimate

System Name	EMMA <3
Processor	AMD Athlon X2 3600+ Brisbane @ Stock
Motherboard	GigaByte GA-M57SLI-s4 (I also hate it -.-)
Cooling	Stock and many Fans :D
Memory	2GB G.Skill (2 x 1GB DDR-2 800 CL5-5-5-15) @ Stock
Video Card(s)	ECS 8600GT @ Stock
Storage	Samsung (120GB IDE)
Display(s)	Compaq V70 (Plz Viewsonic 1903w hurry up!!!)
Case	Case xD
Audio Device(s)	Realtek dunnowat 7.1 onboard
Power Supply	Eurocase 450w
Software	Vista Ultimate x32
Benchmark Scores	Poor, horrible xD

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Motherboard	Abit AN8
Cooling	Amd 4 heatpipe cooler.
Memory	2x512mb KVR @ 416 @ 2.5-3-3-6
Video Card(s)	Asus 7900gt TOP
Storage	WD 120gb sata
Case	Antec P180
Audio Device(s)	soon to be audigy 2
Power Supply	Enermax 535 watt

Processor	Intel Core i5 4690K
Motherboard	AsRock Z97 Extreme4
Cooling	Hyper 212 Evo
Memory	16GB
Video Card(s)	R9 Nano
Storage	256GB SATA SSD 2TB WD Blue
Display(s)	1920x1080
Case	Cooler Master Elite 130
Power Supply	CX650M
Software	Argh, Windows 10. I hated Windows 7. I hate Windows 10 more. Give me back XP!!!

Processor	AMD64 Athlon X2 5600+ Socket AM2- 3.43GHz @ 1.45V
Motherboard	ASUS Crosshair
Cooling	Zalman 9700 and AS5
Memory	2GB Crucial Ballistix DDR2-800- ???? @ 4-4-4-12 2.2V
Video Card(s)	EVGA e-Geforce 8800GTX 768MB 630 Core \ 980 Memory
Storage	2x Seagate 320GB 7200.10 in RAID-0 NVRAID, Seagate SATA 1.5GB/s 160GB
Display(s)	Samsung Syncmaster 226BW 22" Widescreen, DVI
Case	Cooler Master RC-690 (Some Mods.)
Audio Device(s)	Creative Audigy 2 ZS
Power Supply	700Watt Thermaltake ToughPower Modular
Software	Windows XP Professional SP2- Tweaked :D

System Name	Work in progress
Processor	AMD 955---4Ghz
Motherboard	MSi GD70
Cooling	OcZ Phase/water
Memory	Crucial2GB kit (1GBx2), Ballistix 240-pin DIMM, DDR3 PC3-16000
Video Card(s)	CrossfireX 2 X HD 4890 1GB OCed to 1000Mhz
Storage	SSD 64GB
Display(s)	Envision 24'' 1920x1200
Case	Using the desk ATM
Audio Device(s)	Sucky onboard for now :(
Power Supply	1000W TruePower Quattro

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Motherboard	Asus ROG Strix X370-F Gaming BIOS 6203\| Legion 5i Pro NM-E231
Cooling	Noctua NH-U14S Push-Pull + NT-H1 \| Stock Cooling
Memory	TEAMGROUP T-Force Vulcan Z 32GB (2x16) DDR4 4000 @ 3600 18-20-20-42 1.35v \| 32GB DDR5 4800 (2x16)
Video Card(s)	Palit GeForce RTX 4070 JetStream 12GB \| CPU-based Intel Iris XE + RTX 3070 8GB 150W
Storage	4TB SP UD90 NVME, 960GB SATA SSD, 2TB HDD \| 1TB Samsung OEM NVME SSD + 4TB Crucial P3 Plus NVME SSD
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Case	Corsair 600C - Stock Fans on Low \| Stock Metal/Plastic
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Power Supply	EVGA 750G2 Modular + APC Back-UPS Pro 1500 \| 300W OEM (heavy use) or Lenovo Legion C135W GAN (light)
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