Little Devil's Single Stage (white) review

[ckirkby3]

Okay guys, well i received the unit this morning and what can say, WOW! The workmanship is second to none, its a really durable, rugged

build.

In case anyone didnt read my previous thread here are the specs:

- Compressor: Danfoss NL11F

- LittleDevil's Custom Sized Condensor

- LittleDevil's Spiral Evaporator

- Littledevil's Single Stage Case

- LittleDevil's Universal mounting (939,478,775,AM2)

- Eliwell EM300 Thermometer

- 220V Fan On Condensor

- 12V Sanyo Denki On The Backside

- 507 Gas

Unit is tuned for 245w Load (Massive load) @ -31.1 degrees which is very good for a single stage

Here's my story (review)...

I was awoken this morning at around 7:45am ish to a loud knocking noise, and to my suprise its the delivery guys, brilliant! Just as Little

Devil had promised monday morning and its delivered. So it took 4 days in total, from Slovenia, and it was tracked as to prevent any

problems.

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Here is the time on my phone of when it arrived (in the background is my gorgeous little daughter she's only 8 weeks old :-P bless er)



Here is the parcel looking very vibrant and refreshed after its 4 day journey to the UK, while i'm still wiping the cobwebs from my eyes.

I was quite happy that it was still the right way up. (UP Pointing UP )



The top



The excitement increases as i first open it...



Top layer of polystyrene protection!



Top layer taken off :-P exposing the nicely packaged accessories and the nicely wrapped cap line.



Everything snug as a bug in a rug!



Slowly taking everything out of the box, i want to appreciate this moment lol



Some neoprene tubing and some armaflex (lovely jubbly, i'm sure i'll find use cap the end, some spare condoms.. haha I wish)



All the accessories together...one big happy family (mounting kit, neoprene tubing, and armaflex)



This is what the mounting kit comprises of...UNIVERSAL METAL!! BACKPLATE, pre-drilled neoprene spacer, 4 long threaded bolts, 4 big metal

washers, 4 small metal washers, 4 nylon washers, 4 wing nuts, and 5 nuts (1 for lucK?) oh and a spare bit of neoprene to cut around your cpu

socket , clever bugger he thinks of it all!



View from the top still wrapped



Side view wrapped



The back.. with two types of power inputs (one of them looks like the old type where you can plug it into your pc. UK spec, on off switch,

nothing fancy just high quality stuff. Grill covering the 12v sanyo denki. This picture does the unit justice! Looks mega sexy



Cap line, neoprene tubing, top mounting plate (universal aswell as you can see), donut over the plastic enclosure. Which is held in place

by a metal type ring (usually these are rubber).



Was a bit scared to turn it on initially because it had wires sprouting out the top, but grew some balls, turned it on... and watched the

temp go from 18 degrees to -44.2 in a matter of minutes. The unit was lit quite literally chilling :-P



Clearer pic of the temp



Now, seeing as though i'll be running this unit 24/7 grease is the key, I filled the socket..., closed the clasp, filled the socket again,

filled in the recesses of the socket, inside the little square gap under the cpu, and smothered it all around the cpu socket until i couldnt

see any gaps that didnt have grease. A thorough smothering was also performed on the back. Here is what it looked like once i cut out my

neoprone square. I just used a stanley and kept digging it into the motherboard to perforate and shape it around the socket (hence why it

doesnt look very neat) But this isnt all about neatness, its about performance .



Close up!



The review wouldnt be complete if i didnt look inside... Look how clean it is inside :-O



See what i mean about the craftmanship, the units are very well made, mass produced uber phase goodness, just how i like it.

[ckirkby3]

Nice big 220v fan on the condensor



Nice neat cabling that provides power to the unit



And a close up of the rear sanyo denki fan. Oh by the way the wires sprouting out of the top of the unit are actually for this rear fan,

so i just found an old fan, cut the wires, and wired the molex connector to the red and black wires and plugged it into a spare molex in my

computer. Can't be running the unit without the rear fan working



Mounted the unit (cap line wasnt long enough to go over the accelero s1 heatsink on the graphics card and various other high rising

components so i just took the side off and plumbed it straight in :-P. Made sure it was mega tight and heres the finished results...



Close ups of the mounting ;-)





Another angle



The set up under the little alcove in my living room





Another angle of the mount





Pushed the power button, i hear the noise of the phase and my pc together in harmony and the feeling of relief was fantastic. Straight

into bios i go temps are at... (minus)-42 degrees. A few minutes with the pc turned on (stock overclock & voltage etc) and the temps are at

(minus)-41 degrees.





So i crank it up to 3.6ghz (400x9 @ 1.6volts to warm things up a little, and the temps start going down, 39, 38, and they settled at 37

degrees after 1 hour 24 minutes of running orthos. 37 degreees solid. One instance of orthos per core, affinitt manually set. StressCPU with

Gomacs core test.



Finally, pics of orthos



If anyone is interested in a little devil unit, his turnaround time is very fast. He packaged the items very securely, and is very fair on price. Highly regarded many think of him as one of the best if not THE best phase builder in the world. If you want a unit quick, he's probably your best bet at the moment. The unit i ordered was already built and took just 4 days to be delivered. I payed bank transfer with my bank and I will definitely purchasing more from him in the future. He is fairly easy to contact, always very polite and keeps you constantly informed on the progress of your build with various screenshots personal to you. He is available to email via ldphasechange@gmail.com.

If anyone has any requests i will more than happily try speeds, settings, etc etc. And i will be tweaking and adding more pics to this review. Hope you have enjoyed the review so far, stay tuned for updates!

[Clunk]

Very nice indeed

I have ordered mine and it apparently shipped today.

Is your Q6600 a B3 or G0?

Edit: and how noisy is it?

Lets see some benches then

[ckirkby3]

My q6600 is g0. Erm.. its quite noisy lol, everyone always asks the same question, i suppose you dont really know until you get it. But its like pulling the bottom of your fridge out, attaching two high cfm fans to it and powering it up? Only just starting to get back into the overclocking scene, what do you think i should bump it up to. And what voltages do i need to up to get stability , MCH voltage? Whats a safe limit for those aswell?

[Clunk]

That noisy eh? Although thankfully, its not going to be 24/7 for me, or else I would end up mental

Have a look in supershanks's DQ6 X38 blog/review and youll find a decent amount of settings to get you started.

For 3.6, you probably would only need 1.375v-1.42v, but your milage may vary, as they say

I want to see big Mhz

Edit: Digg here.

[ckirkby3]

Booted up at 3.96 1.6volts , struggled a bit no matter what memory settings i used wouldnt boot, just put em on auto and it worked.. hmm, theres an issue somewhere and its not the cpu temp lol

[ckirkby3]

running prime95 at the minute

[supershanks]

The biggest problem setting is with the Static tRead Value Trd The value is modified according to the value of the Performance Enhance Settimg ([Standard], [Turbo] & [Extreme]) and strap used. The value selected on auto is often too tight. If running >400 FSB it’s best to use a minimum value of 7. The other option is to run at a lower Performance setting, with the corresponding performance hit.

from Gigabyte GA X38 DQ6 Blog - Overview also check out bios settings shown in the various clock posts. Gigabyte GA X38 DQ6 Blog 1.60v should see you up to 4k

luck

[death]

i want to see some 4.5ghz runs if not ill send u my addy for u to send it me m8 lolololololol

[death]

so when we going to see some big overclocking done then m8