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DaMulta

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I say try it and let us know lol
 

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Yes thats what I mean.
Here are the tank I'm talking about

http://www.partydelights.co.uk/themes/helium-balloons.asp

I know I have seen these at wal mart stores and at michaels craft stores.

I just thought of this,
http://www.orientaltrading.com/ui/b.../91&requestURI=processProductsCatalog#reviews
My wife works at this place oriental trading CO. I should see if see can use her employ discount on this Item and buy one sometime and have some fun, she also gets 40% off, so that would be a grate deal I think?
 
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I'd say between 50 and 75K for the LN2 machine..
 
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ask them to donate one to TPU for review? lmso :D
 

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Basicaly like one of those compressed air cans if you flip it up side down then srpay its supper cold and will BURN!
i know from past experinces:eek:

I am Stable @ 3.718 @ 1.49V

You know, after all my trouble never getting my chip to run over 3.8 with my ram at 1066...turns out the sumbitch just needed more volts than I was feeding it. I'm running 1.50v through it now, though my sensors are all showing 1.49. Temps are fine, motherboard temps went up a tad but not enough to concern me. Chip idles on 28C'ish and under load around
35C'ish. Not bad for water.


Here is my new stable clock. Haven't tweaked the NB yet, but I'll try that today although I don't feel it will make a significant difference in performance. I'll try getting a slightly higher bus today as well, which would help, but I doubt it the memory will remain stable if I turn the bus up. For a 24/7 clock, this is great and I played Unreal 3 online all day yesterday without a hitch. Good stuff.

 

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Holding a Helium tank upside down won't work. The cold only comes from the transformation from a liquid to a gas, not from the helium itself. The thing that keeps it a liquid in those tanks is pressure.

The liquid helium and/or nitrogen used for OCing is refrigerated to the point of being cold enough to become liquid at atmospheric pressure, and thus is super cold.
 

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Well just got my gf's 7750 BE and Biostar 790GX/SB750 in.

I tossed the 720BE on there, same results as my DFI gave me. Turn ACC on Auto and save the bios + exit. Then the comp powers off, not a restart just flat out turns off. And turning it on will only last about 3 - 4 seconds before it powers off and I have to reset the bios to go any farther. I messed with giving the 4th core diff voltage manually a bit, but no luck.

Probably a good thing either way, just looking at that board vs the DFI you can see the major difference in build quality. The Biostar is littered with caps that have the cheapo plastic outsides. And no HS on the VRM's.

But it goes beyond that, I finally got around to OC'ing the 7750 and got some pretty darn good results. As it sits right now with the stock fan on and only 1x 120mm case fan going I have it running at 3.3ghz with 1.344v. But for anyone looking to get the most out of their OC I do not recommend this board, you get what you pay for. And the vdroop is UNBELIEVABLE on this thing. First discovery was that anything from 1.375v to 1.450v resulted in a 1.408v once under load, and even then it would drop to 1.392v intermittitantly. Then under 1.375v was just flat out random, the next one down ended up being over 1.375v, then 1.350v ended up being like 1.33v, and the one under that ended up being like 1.344v... Which is where I have it sitting now, and it will still vary a bit under load. But it passed wPrime 1024 without an issue. Once I get some more fans for her case see what I can get out of it now. I just can't give it more volts, it's stable above 1.4v but it just gets too hot too fast.
 
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You have to set it to PER CORE 0% NOT AUTO
 

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did that also, like I said messed with quiet a few options.
 
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Yeah, most likely. Like I said don't really bother me at all though. I just knocked out a 4200 CPU score on 3dmark06 with it and I got a flat 13000 (yes dead on 13k) in P Vantage. After seeing the horrible voltage control I'm happy with this setup.

Later when I upgrade to AM3 when they add maybe quad channel or support for faster speeds I'll pass this mobo to my gf then retire the biostar and 7750 to a sweet HD comp, so these plans are falling in line perfect really.
 
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Yeah, most likely. Like I said don't really bother me at all though. I just knocked out a 4200 CPU score on 3dmark06 with it and I got a flat 13000 (yes dead on 13k) in P Vantage. After seeing the horrible voltage control I'm happy with this setup.

Later when I upgrade to AM3 when they add maybe quad channel or support for faster speeds I'll pass this mobo to my gf then retire the biostar and 7750 to a sweet HD comp, so these plans are falling in line perfect really.

Already thinking of uprgrading for more power
LOVE IT!!
 

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I always try and stage my upgrades so they scale well with the future and an HTPC/Server has been i nthe makings for a long time. But there were always garbage, just weak parts. Now it'll actually end up being something that actually has a bit of power.
 
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Lol, here is how much voltage my 720 takes to get 3.7Ghz stable now :laugh:



It used to take around 1.5 to get that stable. I will be sending this out tomorrow for an RMA. Hell, maybe I'll get really lucky and get one that unlocks this time, or maybe one that overclocks well!
 
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Lol, here is how much voltage my 720 takes to get 3.7Ghz stable now :laugh:

http://img.techpowerup.org/090415/lol3.7Ghz.png

It used to take around 1.5 to get that stable. I will be sending this out tomorrow for an RMA. Hell, maybe I'll get really lucky and get one that unlocks this time, or maybe one that overclocks well!

you will probably get it back when the 955 comes out in 5 DAYS! hopefully
 
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Nah, I'm expecting to get my stuff back in about 3 weeks, I hope it doesn't take that long but that's how long I anticipate it will take.
 
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Nah, I'm expecting to get my stuff back in about 3 weeks, I hope it doesn't take that long but that's how long I anticipate it will take.

3 weeks?
wow what are you going to rma your entire pc?

it took 1 week to get a new 4870x2 from newegg
 
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I'm RMAing 3 things, my CPU, Mobo and Psu so it might take a little longer than 1 week but IDK, I seriously hope it doesn't.

And your in California so I don't think it would take to long for you to get your stuff back, I'm in Indiana so it will take forever for things to get there and get back. Newegg is based in CA if you didn't know.
 
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I'm RMAing 3 things, my CPU, Mobo and Psu so it might take a little longer than 1 week but IDK, I seriously hope it doesn't.

that sucks big time
Hopefully everything gets back to you in 1 week
what happend to the psu?
 
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The fan is dieing on it and instead of opening it up and voiding the warranty I decided to rma it with the rest of the stuff.

O thats a good idea might as well rma while the warranty is good
man this sucks 3 things gone

if that happend to my pc i would be mad!
my other pc is a hp i bought from best buy 6 years ago and it still works a little slow compared to this rig
 
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O thats a good idea might as well rma while the warranty is good
man this sucks 3 things gone

if that happend to my pc i would be mad!
my other pc is a hp i bought from best buy 6 years ago and it still works a little slow compared to this rig

Yeah I noticed it still had warranty on it so I thought why not.

And yeah I seriously have the worst f-ing luck with computers for some reason, makes me so mad!
 
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