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It didn't leak while running overnight so I think I'm going to flush it really good now. I'm guessing that there must be a really hard crust like you said (we call that a protective oxide layer in the nuclear reactor world). I'm thinking maybe boiling water, acetic acid, shaking, ect, but I'm not going as far as the HCl route. We're thinking of mounting this on one of our junker graphics cards to see how well it does. My teenage son is very involved in this project, and stuff like this is like a science lab for him. He came up with using the mason jar as a reservoir for me yesterday. The kid has a mechanical mind of how things work, always borrowing my tools and electrical test equipment.

Thank you. I got a late start between time zone difference and the time it took me to set up once I realized the even was happening lol. Both my teenage son and daughter are now very interested in folding because of this event. If we win RAM or PSU, we will install it in a dedicated folding rig we are currently building. I managed to snag a Ryzen 1200 for $50 off of ebay last night. Looking for a motherboard now.

Funny your fluids were way more gross. The fluid that came out of this was pretty clear. I didn't save it though. Ok we decided it would be easier to leak test it over the paper towel if we dyed the water with easter egg dye. Afterwards I read the side of the box, and the main ingredient is... propylene glycol?

If you want a good laugh, go look at my redneck project video

What could go wrong lol

W1ck3d at techpowerup has a GTX 980 he is selling, not advertised though. He had two in SLI and he sold me one for $150 a couple weeks ago. High end EVGA ACX and excellent condition.

If I could get my hands on some Rx 6800s I'd sell my Vegas.

ooh I'm gaining with my army of little hardwares I wonder if I'll catch pio

I have 4 computers crunching now. I had to leave a couple cores and integrated graphics idle for my kids to do schoolwork. My son and I configured a ghetto compute rig from spare parts in about 90 minutes this morning. I know I got a late start (time zone), but I'm trying hard to get some sort of prize lol. This is exciting, my son picked covid-19, my wife picked alzhemers, and we're running general on the two others. I have one more weak quadro (like 8400 chipset lol) to throw in later after my kids get done with school.

You guys have some compute beast machines! I'm trying my hardest to get all possible cards in the house online. So far: 3 Ryzens, 2 Vega (56+64), GTX 980, HD 7850. About to try and get another HD 7850 and an R3 350 up and running too lol.

I threw in an HD 7850 and GTX 980, as well as another Ryzen. I might be able to get 1 more rig up tomorrow

Ok I got two CPUs and two Vega cards up and folding. I'll see about getting another CPU and Polaris folding later after my kid logs off from school.

Get a cheap 90 degree 24-pin motherboard adapter so that it doesn't crush your cables.

Yes it's already started. We have a U.S. and Canada team so far. Send me your shipping address and a CPU-Z validation with your forum handle in the validation link.

Well...let's just say that there were several hiccups already with my peer-share-testing ? Most importantly I ordered a 90-degree 24-pin adapter to include in the package. Otherwise the cooler puts a ton of stress on the motherboard cables. But I did get some nice results. I can run the thing passively and effectively cool my moderate all-core 24/7 overclock of 4.2GHz, even during 30 minute AIDA64 FPU AVX. I was also able to effectively cool my max-OC of 4.4GHz (yeah not much all-core headroom on this CPU) in AIDA 64 FPU AVX, but with the fans. Effective, meaning no safety throttling or shutdown kicking in. I'll have a summary write-up, with plenty of data, pictures and videos, and I'll post it here when it's ready. I have a lot to say about this cooler, positive and negative. I'm very interested to see what @mllrkllr88 has to say in his professional review.

I got my cooler yesterday. I'll be getting a thread organized here and at that other place. This will be ongoing so people can jump in at any time. I have a small vetting requirement which is basically just a CPU-Z validation with your forum name and a benchmark run. IceGiant is very helpful and sending me bulk amounts of Kryonaut and even purchased testing equipment such as thermocouples for this endeavor. This thing is HUGE

If it's cool with the boss man, I'd like to open this up to this forum as well (US and Canada only right now though). https://www.overclock.net/threads/testers-needed-for-icegiant-prosiphon-elite.1776498/ Reply or send me a P.M. here.

Currently trying to weed through the pretenders and the people actually willing to do the work benching. I posted a short homework assignment to qualify, basically post proof that you have a high core CPU, and prove that you know how to run a benchmark and enter data into a spreadsheet. It's not going so well so far ? But there is no time crunch as I haven't even been shipped the cooler yet~

My review sample is confirmed. Assembling a team on the old forum, but anyone with a high core count CPU in the US is welcome to join our testing team.

Been talking to one of the owners trying to secure a review sample.

Check it out. I stopped crying over not being able to find any new hardware, so instead I unlocked the power limit of my Vega 56 through the registry. Now I'm only limited by the silicon (the way it used to be, and should be). I re-ran all my 3DMarks for HWBOT and this pig was pulling over 400W according to the Afterburner overlay. It is now able to sustain clocks around 1775-1800MHz, and I can bump the HBM a bit more too without it adding additional power limit problems. My HBM is still pretty weak though.

I'd love to get a reference 6800XT and 5800x around normal price. All I see is a bunch of ebay listings for 2-3x MSRP.

HAF XB tray makes it very easy to swap motherboards for benching/testing. Here's a few of the configurations I got to play around with in recent years. Some AM4 boards, Z170, A88X...