Super Secret Project Revealed - 2 Boreas TEC Coolers on a Phenom II X6 1090T Linus Tech Tips
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2011-05-08
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690 words · ~3 min read
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okay so I mostly finished my Frankenstein Project I hope you can
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actually hear me over top of it but I've got two coolit borus Tech coolers here
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so these are using pelier to chill the water and then I'm using some standard
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water cooling stuff hooked up to it in order to actually get the most out of it
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so I've got uh an MC res micro swifttech
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mCP 350 I've got it connected via some
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quick disconnects up to a a swifttech apple
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okay so this is quite quite chilly to the touch I've got a fan blowing over
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the CPU socket to make it so that uh I don't get any condensation problems and
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water dripping on my motherboard here the way I've actually powered it is just
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totally don't do this at home kids but I've actually taken um the two power
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connectors and then I've used I'm just kind of jammed them in there this is an
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8 pin connector these even actually get quite warm to the touch that's why I
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have them positioned all around the f here every one of these the the the
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borus themselves are actually pulling about 400 WS just for the pelas so I'm
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using a 1200 W power supply to cool this whole thing anyway I've got it hooked up
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uh via an 8 Pin power connector then I've uh soldered together and wrapped up
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some wires and then Frankenstein that
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together I've got this uh kolet control center hooked up just so that I can
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monitor the coolant temps but I don't think they're right anyway um let me see
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oh I can actually show you the you know what I'll run a quick Benchmark here so
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I'm running the uh the Phenom 2 1090t and I don't actually have CPU Z
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open at the moment but I'll just fire that right up here you can have a look
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so I've only got it running at 4.2 GHz for the time being and I haven't had any
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problems with prime 95 yet so I'm definitely going to try and push it
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further but I think the most impressive part about this actually is here let's
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stop torture test and open up core temp check this out the CPU Temps at
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idle oh no that shouldn't be right yeah
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it's going down I think it's actually going to take a while to go back down
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after I start core temp but oh yeah you can see here the low temp so the lowest
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it's been and yeah it's going to creep its way back down there now I think it
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takes a while to update is 0 degrees so it actually idles at 0 de and then as
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soon as I fire up the uh the torture test it jumps up to a
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whopping o 15 degrees so that's at 4.2
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GHz underload you can see the actual high once it's been running for a while
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I've had it running is 22° so that's
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running with the two bases on a uh a swifttech apple G block so that's an
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ancient apple G this is actually my first water block ever it just has a new
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uh mounting plate on it so it's been updated a little bit I also put a bow on
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it as as well if you're into the Apple you'll know what a bow is anyway I guess
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that that pretty much covers my little Frankenstein Project and I'm going to
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give you some overclocking updates as soon as I have some I'm going to see how
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high I can push this uh 10 uh 10 oh it's
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calling it a 1095t that's interesting I wonder if
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that's some kind of omen anyway it's a
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1090t and let's see how high we can push it