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I have decided to embark upon what will most likely be a lengthy but carefully planned cascade build. This will become my primary benching and reviewing cascade to replace my underpowered but otherwise ideal Baby cascade. I am aiming at -95C loaded temperatures, cold enough to consistently bench at 5200MHz and higher but not cold enough to cold bug the processors I’ll be using. This is simply the planning stage, there will likely be another post detailing the construction, and a last post detailing initial results.

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This unit is a story of many delays as it was my first V2000 build. Now that I’m done with it and satisfied I must say I’m rather pleased with how it turned out and will most likely be making myself one but I don’t know if I’ll build another V2000 for a customer as it took a lot of custom fabbing and work. Quite the fun build but with it spanning nearly 3 months(roughly 5 times my average build length..) was mind-racking. Glad it’s done, it was a beautiful build to create but I’ll stick with my bread and butter single-stages unless someone really wants another.

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Finished up the second Twin last week but I just shipped it out today due to an emergency arising at my daytime job and keeping me tied up most of last week. This unit is identical to the previous first unit except for a minor change in how I wired up the controller. The charge and performance was identical within a degree and 1-3 psi, rather great when standardized stuff ends up being well.. standard. Glad to have this unit going to it’s home out in California. This is the second to last unit to ship in this run, the V2000B also shipped today and will receive it’s own post. The following picture was taken with my camera phone as my roommates D80 is currently acting funky, so don’t blame me on the quality. Didn’t feel I needed to take anymore pictures as the previous images are an identical unit. So funny when I drop it off to be packaged up, it goes into a monstrous 24″ x 24″ x 24″ box full of packing peanuts, safe and secure for anything. Now back to the shop I go, research never ends!

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Friday saw the culmination of a few weeks of effort with the shipping of Twin 1 from my current line of single-stage builds. Over the last few months I’ve been honing down this build process to a standard assembly line and I do believe I have finally sourced all the components. These particular builds, Twin 1 and Twin 2, do feature a few new things to my ensemble of builds. Most notably is the switch over to under-the-ice.com’s IceBox single-stage case and Christos’ Freeze Pack controller. While the cases fit seamlessly into my design, the controller was a slight issue as I didn’t realize it required an additional 12v powersupply to power the board which in the end added a slight delay. Been a pleasure assembling these units though, some of my finest I must say but I always see room for improvement.

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During the end of July I began a run of three phase-change builds for customers ranging from Atlanta to San Francisco. This is the first of them, it is a Prometeia Mach II GT modified to hold a quad-core load. I post all my builds over at XtremeSystems so this will be a crude copy/paste. Hope you like what you see, took a lot of time on this build with the cramped case.

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