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Posted: Tue Dec 01, 2009 9:54 am Post subject:
Basically: Increase CPU/GPU/Memory performance. A reaction to this is hte processor overheats so cooling is a big issue.
Ice cubes won't work. You'd need a heat sink and fan, or liquid cooling (water) or hydrogen or oil... _________________
Computers have a speed limit to prevent overheating/sparking/starting fires.
If you submerge it in ice water or mineral oil or whatever you pick, you can get insane speeds out of overclocking (breaking the limit).
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Posted: Tue Dec 01, 2009 3:59 pm Post subject:
Cryoma wrote:
Computers have a speed limit to prevent overheating/sparking/starting fires.
If you submerge it in ice water or mineral oil or whatever you pick, you can get insane speeds out of overclocking (breaking the limit).
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Posted: Tue Dec 01, 2009 6:27 pm Post subject:
Yeah sorry it was 3AM and i was to tired to think up of more cooling techniques.
Anyways, if you overclock too much, and you overheat your CPU, you can potentially destroy it. It can also affect it's life expectancy a little depending on whether your cooling solution is working well or not. _________________
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Posted: Tue Dec 01, 2009 7:01 pm Post subject:
Cryoma wrote:
Computers have a speed limit to prevent overheating/sparking/starting fires.
If you submerge it in ice water or mineral oil or whatever you pick, you can get insane speeds out of overclocking (breaking the limit).
Ice water would fry that shit, mineral water isn't conductive.
Wikipedia wrote:
Overclocking is the process of running a computer component at a higher clock rate (more clock cycles per second) than it was designed for or was specified by the manufacturer, usually practiced by enthusiasts seeking an increase in the performance of their computers.
[...]
People who overclock their components mainly focus their efforts on processors, video cards, motherboard chipsets, and Random Access Memory (RAM).
Tl;dr, go into the BIOS and fuck with a few settings and, assuming you have sufficient power and cooling capabilities, you can run your CPU/etc faster than it's supposed to be able to.
The idea is usually to get your components to run as fast as possible (a 30-50% performance increase isn't uncommon for most CPUs, however RAM, GPUs, etc, vary highly in overclocking potential) while keeping the temperature below critical and the component stable (no erroneous calculations or outright crashes in the case of CPUs, no graphical glitches with GPUs, etc) under load. _________________
Liquid nitrogen? You know, the stuff that they stick hollow rubber balls in, then take them out and drop them on the floor and they shatter like light bulbs? Did your middle school science teacher never play the trick on you where he/she put hot dogs in a glove, put the glove at the end of his/her sleeve, then stick it in and break it on the table? Yeah, that stuff.
Liquid nitrogen BOILS at -321 degrees F, meaning it has to be kept at a temperature below that. That WOULD break your CPU. _________________
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FangBanger wrote:
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Liquid nitrogen is a compact and readily transported source of nitrogen gas without pressurization. Further, its ability to maintain temperatures far below the freezing point of water makes it extremely useful in a wide range of applications, primarily as an open-cycle refrigerant, including:
* used to store cells at low temperature for laboratory work
* in cryogenics
* as a source of very dry nitrogen gas
* the immersion freezing and transportation of food products
* the cryopreservation of blood, reproductive cells (sperm and egg), and other biological samples and materials
* as a coolant for overclocking a central processing unit, a graphics processing unit, or another type of computer hardware[3]
* as a method of freezing water pipes in order to work on them in situations where a valve is not available to block water flow to the work area.
* in cryotherapy for removing unsightly or potentially malignant skin lesions such as warts and actinic keratosis.
* in the process of promession, a way to dispose of the dead.
* cooling a high-temperature superconductor to a temperature sufficient to achieve superconductivity.
* the cryonic preservation of humans and pets in the hope of future reanimation.
* as a coolant for vacuum pump traps and in controlled-evaporation processes in chemistry.
* as a coolant to increase the sensitivity of infrared homing seeker heads of missiles such as the Strela 3.
* as a coolant to temporarily "shrink" mechanical components during machine assembly and allow improved interference fits.
* as a coolant for super computers
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Posted: Tue Dec 01, 2009 8:26 pm Post subject:
elpacco wrote:
slovach wrote:
elpacco wrote:
Nick :3 wrote:
And liquid nitrogen?
No, that would break it.
no, it wouldn't.
Liquid nitrogen? You know, the stuff that they stick hollow rubber balls in, then take them out and drop them on the floor and they shatter like light bulbs? Did your middle school science teacher never play the trick on you where he/she put hot dogs in a glove, put the glove at the end of his/her sleeve, then stick it in and break it on the table? Yeah, that stuff.
Liquid nitrogen BOILS at -321 degrees F, meaning it has to be kept at a temperature below that. That WOULD break your CPU.
No it wouldn't. Electrical components such as CPUs run best at absolute zero. _________________
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