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Originally Posted by Habeed
What do you do about condensation? I noticed you put Faber Castell erasers around the CPU...but don't those erasers cause the capacitors and VRMs near the CPU to overheat?
Do you use a heat strip on the backplate or just foam?
When Tom's Hardware tried to do a 5 ghz phase change build they had massive problems with condensation, hence my curiosity as to how you solved this problem. Are your users able to run 24/7 for weeks at a time?
Another question : cost effectiveness wise, it doesn't make sense to do phase unless you already have an SR-2 with dual hexacore CPUs, right? Phase is expensive and CPU upgrades give more bang for the buck unless you already have the best CPUs money can buy and you still want more performance.
With dual 6 cores overclocked, the system puts out a lot more heat than just one CPU. How do you beef up the chiller for the dual cpu version? Roughly how much does this raise the cost of the build?
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I must say that I totally and 100% agree with your statement.
Generally speaking, condensation will always remain a problem in phasing if not operated in a dedicated environment. Now in this particular case and for the system above I'm not at all involved or have any prior knowledge about it in order to be able to fully present any actual facts. Maybe the pressure and work load of this particular system is much more tweaked and adjusted for a more general condition use than that of Tom's Hardware's set up, or perhaps the team never cared enough to prepare their system adequately before putting the set up in a full scale testing panel. Also I'm not familiar with the kind of speed in pure MHz the available customers are actually getting out of their system samples.
Apart from that, just like you said, I think phasing is only interesting and for that matter should only be attempted if you already own an exclusive high-end system and component parts which you care to push ever further, since anything but at least a hexa core CPU would not benefit at all in such way that it would become cost effective. A more traditional but sensitively hand-picked and refined pure WC system should be a better choice in my opinion.
Nevertheless, I'm actually getting pretty fond of the Red colored non-phased chassis, the regular one I mean! It looks very neat, professionally made, spacious, SR2 compatible, could be used with both 360 or even a 480 radiotor, 2 PSU:s... very nice indeed, definitely a pretty unique exterior and interior design
I also live in Europe with 230V out of the outlet socket so I don't have to worry about any power adapters being applied... hum, I really have to give this a serious thought, very nice and practical looking... otherwise I practically had made up my mind to get a Mountain Mods case but this one sure seems like a pretty good alternative I must admit! Will definitely check out the pics provided some additional rounds again soon...
Edited by Bittornado - 6/15/11 at 5:52pm
