techeblog.com— Though it might seem fun to try, you shouldn?t pour oil into your PC case or overclock a CPU to 5GHz using dry ice for safety reasons.
Jan 29, 2007View in Crawl 4
Um, did you hit the comment button while in the London Xray Camera story, were forced to login, then was inexplicably directed here where you typed and submitted your story where it doesn't make sense? Happens to me too LOL!
I second that. I nearly watched the whole thing waiting for something bust into flames/explode.The title suggests something spectacular. The video is pure "Hello from 2002!"
The problem with overclocking is in order to have stability, you need to increase the voltage. If you do that, more heat is produced. There is also a diminishing returns factor. Many non-overclocked P4 chips actually run in excess of 100W when in use, so all of that heat needs to be removed if you don't want to melt the silicon and plastics. All the liquid nitrogen does is to remove some (well, a lot) of that heat. Because nitrogen is a major component in our atmosphere, it is not dangerous for the components (well, unless you hit it with a hammer I suppose).Performance wise, I would rather have more cores in my CPU than double the GHz.
boris4kaJan 30, 2007
Um, dry ice and oil cooling are frequently used. And it's very easy to get a CPU above 5GHz. This article is by noobs and for noobs.
namcoJan 30, 2007
Um, did you hit the comment button while in the London Xray Camera story, were forced to login, then was inexplicably directed here where you typed and submitted your story where it doesn't make sense? Happens to me too LOL!
bifftaJan 30, 2007
No, but I'm sure you could cook some chips!
022aJan 30, 2007
I second that. I nearly watched the whole thing waiting for something bust into flames/explode.The title suggests something spectacular. The video is pure "Hello from 2002!"
grumpyrainJan 30, 2007
The problem with overclocking is in order to have stability, you need to increase the voltage. If you do that, more heat is produced. There is also a diminishing returns factor. Many non-overclocked P4 chips actually run in excess of 100W when in use, so all of that heat needs to be removed if you don't want to melt the silicon and plastics. All the liquid nitrogen does is to remove some (well, a lot) of that heat. Because nitrogen is a major component in our atmosphere, it is not dangerous for the components (well, unless you hit it with a hammer I suppose).Performance wise, I would rather have more cores in my CPU than double the GHz.
rowlodgeJan 30, 2007
same here...that was funny...ROFL!