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- ThatGeek, on 01/24/2009, -3/+433dugg for "AMD does not recommend pouring liquid nitrogen on your head or your friend's head"
- BobTheTaco, on 01/25/2009, -8/+294Me: "Hello, I would like to by some liquid nitrogen please."
Vendor: "What for?"
Me: "Going to play me some Crysis!" - kidwithsword, on 01/24/2009, -46/+324...But can it run Crysis?
- FZero68, on 01/25/2009, -4/+202Nothing can ever or will ever be able to run Crysis.
- inactive, on 01/25/2009, -1/+166Yeah, but did IBM overclock it in some kind of cool neon nightclub? No.
- inactive, on 01/24/2009, -46/+171IBM overclocked a processor to run at 500GHz (at 4.5 degrees above absolute zero)
http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2006/06/20/ibm_overcl ...
350GHz at ROOM temp, too - kikibun, on 01/25/2009, -1/+95No they got a single transistor running at that speed irc. if a chip as we have them today were running at that speed electrical signals in the processor would not have time to propagate from one part of the chip to another in a single clock cycle. Either way there is no way your Core 2 or w/e is ever gonna run anywhere close to 500 GHz
- twertyto, on 01/25/2009, -1/+93Yes..and it blends.
- seldon452, on 01/25/2009, -5/+86I am seriously considering going over to AMD because the Phenom II is dirt cheep and I need a processor upgrade.
Intel is good but is overpriced. - jakerandell, on 01/25/2009, -9/+86and i... jizzed, in my pants
- brokentone, on 01/25/2009, -3/+65Wait. . . stock aircooled graphics while trying to beat 3D Mark Scores?
- tjproto, on 01/25/2009, -8/+64But could it run Cr... actually..
MAYBE it could. - psykiv, on 01/25/2009, -6/+60IBM to AMD: n00bs
- cowboy86, on 01/25/2009, -1/+54Crysis will run it.
- Dylson, on 01/25/2009, -3/+56Get the ***** out of here.
- InvisibleKid, on 01/25/2009, -3/+55***** you, two of my friends died trying to run Crysis...
- twertyto, on 01/25/2009, -1/+52Maybe this is a dumb question but...How do the electronic components in the CPU stay intact when the temperatures get that cold?
I know from various stories I've read about the expansion and contraction of components from just turning them off and on that can harm computers over time which are much smaller temperature variations than what is being described here. - kukurio, on 01/25/2009, -0/+49The parent is correct, and the grandparent is wrong. Whomever wrote the linked article had no idea what they were talking about. The following press release makes it clear that it was individual transistors reaching speeds of 500 GHz:
http://gtresearchnews.gatech.edu/newsrelease/half- ...
And no, just because transistors exist with f_T's near the terahertz level, it doesn't mean that chips will be getting there anytime soon. Not only is the power consumption tremendous, but it would also require a completely different chip architecture. Whenever you're dealing with signals with a wavelength approaching that of the length scales in your system, the usual circuit model breaks down, and you need to start thinking about signals as propagating waves.
As a rule of thumb, you have to start worrying when your wavelength is ten times the largest distance. For a chip 2 mm across, this is about 15 GHz. This is one reason why the big chip manufacturers have begun to pursue multi-core processors in lieu of higher clock rates. - 2ach, on 01/25/2009, -0/+47Only at 640X480
- chrislewis, on 01/25/2009, -1/+453dmark is very cpu dependant.
- punkcat, on 01/25/2009, -3/+44something about chuck norris and crysis running
- dasmonki, on 01/25/2009, -1/+41But probably not
- inactive, on 01/25/2009, -2/+41but can YOUR meme run crysis?
- k3rfuffl3, on 01/25/2009, -6/+42Sigh... It's not an x86 chip. It's just something used in communication devices and it's not nearly as complex as processors in your desktop/laptop.
I think it's relatively safe to call you a clueless moron. If you hadn't added the link I'd have guessed you were being sarcastic. Hopefully, you still are and I'm wrong. - Needles13, on 01/25/2009, -0/+35It's so cold my processor is running at peak efficiency.
- inactive, on 01/25/2009, -4/+38The components themselves do not bear the brunt of the coolant, the heat sink is cooled with the coolant which allows the heat sink to suck up more heat therefore removing the excessive heat from the CPU
- tomokatsu, on 01/25/2009, -9/+43Am I the only one bored with this meme?
- jasdf, on 01/25/2009, -3/+36In a word...Yes.
- Juntistik, on 01/25/2009, -0/+33Not to mention a whole chipset + ram overhaul. My motherboard supports Phenom II platform, all I have to do is flash my bios and I'm set to go, I don't need to get a $300 motherboard and switch to DDR3 tri-channel ram.
I'd say you would save a WHOLE lot of money, even if you just build a new rig without importing old parts. - Soytaco, on 01/25/2009, -1/+33After Phenom i'm really glad to see AMD with some new benchmark records again :D
- wontstoptalking, on 01/25/2009, -2/+32It's going to be awesome watching this video in four or five years, when we're running 15ghz, 16-core processors.
- neumulct, on 01/25/2009, -0/+30"Overclocking and extreme cooling is certain to void your hardware warranties and could cause serious damage to your PC hardware. We burn through motherboards, processors and graphics cards at an alarming rate doing it. AMD does not recommend pouring liquid nitrogen on your head or on your friend's head. Liquid helium is incredibly dangerous in untrained hands and is one of the coldest substances in the universe. Only the most experienced, safe, and methodical overclockers should ever even think of attempting something this extreme."
- sekhui, on 01/25/2009, -0/+29ok, super simple. the colder a conductor is, the less resistance it offers to the flow of electrons.
- DubiousDrewski, on 01/25/2009, -2/+31Yeah, you tell them. Those guys in the video obviously have no idea what the hell they were doing.
/s - compgeek, on 01/25/2009, -1/+29holy sweet jesus. I remember back when toms hardware did a 5Ghz P4 this is just insane
- inactive, on 01/25/2009, -0/+271) Haha, no. Vacuum = no thermal convection = massive overheating problems.
2) yes. - CreamySmooth, on 01/25/2009, -1/+26Dug for pouring liquid helium/nitrogen (not sure) on the dues head. Talk about brainfreeze!
- Lane, on 01/25/2009, -2/+26"Please note that this result has been produced using display drivers which have not been validated or approved by Futuremark and will not be visible on default result search on the ORB or on the Hall of Fame."
if you look at the clockspeed its obvious this score is *****! yeah, a 3.6 core I7 will hit 46k.... - Tribis, on 01/25/2009, -8/+31Top score right now is 46644 and it's Intel. Not sure why they say they broke a world record if their score was submitted after the current top score. http://service.futuremark.com/search/3dmark05.acti ...
- dhughes, on 01/25/2009, -2/+25 They should have run Folding@home and completed some work units rather than wasting all that power, they could have cured cancer!
- FUR10N, on 01/25/2009, -0/+23... at -50 kelvin
but first we'll have to reduce absolute zero - dhughes, on 01/25/2009, -0/+22"...does not recommend..." but I don't hear a definite 'no' in there ;)
- radu79, on 01/25/2009, -3/+25Actually, the heatsink touches the CPU, which means that the CPU itself will be cooled down to that temperature. Which is why such speeds can be reached (materials becoming superconductors and fancy physics like that happening).
- kefkaantakrist, on 01/25/2009, -0/+21I'm not so sure that the clock speed of processors is going to increase much more, and certainly not to 15GHz within 4 years. You'll notice clock speed actually dropped not so long ago, from P4 to CD.
16-core sounds about right. - Brak710101, on 01/25/2009, -4/+24Basically, the colder it is, the faster the chips can work.
So when your computer overheats, it's not that it's too hot, it's just that it's not cold enough. - Fogell, on 01/25/2009, -1/+21Rob Schneider: Can I have some nitrogen?
Pharmacist: Oh you want Neosporin?
Rob Schneider: This works?
Pharmacist: From time to time, yes. - inactive, on 01/25/2009, -0/+19omg no wai
- Dylson, on 01/25/2009, -5/+23You could harness all the power in the universe and put it in computer form and you STILL wouldn't be able to run Crysis. NOTHING CAN ***** RUN CRYSIS.
- inactive, on 01/25/2009, -2/+17I bet it plays Pong like a *****!
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