Ahhhh! Intel's on fire!

[blueonblack]

I hate Intel. This is likely due to my first PC, which was a Packard Bell and an absolute piece of garbage. Every system I have had since has had an AMD processor in it and, while it makes no logical sense whatsoever, I have been an AMD person ever since.

I had a spare motherboard laying around that was ancient and of vitually no use to anyone (Pentium 3 era). I had also just received a new shipment of ingredients for a batch of thermite. After a few mexican beers with that little green fruit of the beer gods inside them, combining these two seemed as natural as sex in the woods.

Disclaimer: What you are about to see is photographic evidence of an act bordering on lunacy. It was dangerous in several different ways. I feel legally and morally obligated to tell anyone reading this NOT TO TRY IT. Having said that, I do hereby willfully and completely disclaim and deny any responsibility for any consequences (good or bad) resulting in any actions taken as a result of reading this post, in perpetuity. (That is a very cool word, isn't it?)

Below we have the sacrificial calf, so to speak.

http://i257.photobucket.com/albums/hh219/daddyforever2/Untitled-1.jpg

http://i257.photobucket.com/albums/hh219/daddyforever2/Untitled-2.jpg


Add a pile of thermite (the gray powder), ignition compound (the red powder), and magnesium ribbon for fuse (hard to see sticking up out of the powder pile) and we may get some use out of this fossil.

http://i257.photobucket.com/albums/hh219/daddyforever2/Untitled-3.jpg


Fire it up: The magnesium fuse burns very slowly and predictably.

http://i257.photobucket.com/albums/hh219/daddyforever2/Untitled-4.jpg


Wham! Magnesium hits the ignition compound, which burns at the required temerature (like 1500 degrees or some nonsense) to ignite the thermite pile. This in turn burns at around 4000 degrees, though not for very long.

http://i257.photobucket.com/albums/hh219/daddyforever2/Untitled-5.jpg


A couple of pics of the insuing fire...

http://i257.photobucket.com/albums/hh219/daddyforever2/P3125008.jpg

http://i257.photobucket.com/albums/hh219/daddyforever2/P3125009.jpg

http://i257.photobucket.com/albums/hh219/daddyforever2/P3125010.jpg


And the aftermath...

http://i257.photobucket.com/albums/hh219/daddyforever2/P3125014.jpg

http://i257.photobucket.com/albums/hh219/daddyforever2/P3125015.jpg



In closing, I think we have demonstrated here that even the most obsolete components may yet offer some value, if their temperatures are brought to a high enough point. :)
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[Lord Ned]

You did it wrong. Real thermite keeps burning straight through. :D

[OvRiDe]

Awesome .

[Omega]

I was going to make a post about how you shouldn't condone such juvenile behaviour and how fragile all our minds are

then it hit me

pretty colors

also, cool.

[crenn]

If I take my HSF off my intel, I have a similar effect xD

[Zephik]

That was so cool...

I LOVE this picture! Beautiful! You could use that as a desktop background it looks so good.

http://i257.photobucket.com/albums/hh219/daddyforever2/Untitled-5.jpg

[SgtM]

2 of my favorites.. computers and fire! Glad you included the disclaimer. I edited it to make it red and bold and big that way it can't be missed.

[Aero]

poor P3. Those are the good Intel systems IMO, I still run one daily. Boots up without a hitch. Now the P4's were fairly crappy. But those old systems will run forever, kinda like an old car.


Anyway, I agree, looks like your ratio was slightly off with that thermite, although its still pretty sweet:P.

[Spawn-Inc]

cool and all but it could have used ALOT more thermite... i would have liked to see a melted puddle of boiling plastic.

but again the flames are still nice. good job

[b4i7]

uhm...i think your processor over heated :P

[SnowFox]

Nice ! I love it !

I'll try it on my pc ! I think it will reverse. You know, it will get so hot .. it gets cold.
You follow me ?

[Durrthock]

Thats awesome! Thermite is cool stuff Ive seen them amke it so powerful it melted through a safe. +rep

[NightrainSrt4]

Nice. Back in AP Chem like 4 years ago, just about every other week we went out and played with thermite. The teacher had already been told he was being let go so we did much cooler experiments than normal, many bordering on catastrophe.

One time we did a crapload and the teacher didn't want to have too much molten metal all over the concrete out in the parking lot. It was really quite windy, so for those two reason's he placed it on some real thick glass. There must have been some water condensed on it or something (don't really remember what happened as it was so long ago), but the glass shattered everywhere and shot pieces for a good 30yards. The class had done it on glass before with no issues, but that time the teacher did it and it didn't turn out too well. Was pretty cool though, but could have been horrendously bad.

Awesome teacher who shouldn't have been let go. Had nothing to do with his teaching, the principle just didn't like him and that made the boards decision pretty easy I guess. So when he found out he went all out with crazy stuff.

Another time we filled the whole ceiling of the Chem lab with layers of methane bubbles. Awesome show that was.

[Helix666]

oooo... fire...
(no, I'm not a pyromaniac... I just like fire... oh, um...:think:)

And what does it say that when I saw the first picture, Amarok (on random) started playing "Burn It Down" - Avenged Sevenfold. :twisted:

Very spectacular application of chemistry. ;)

[p0Pe]

just some god ol´ vanish super action, and that thing will be going as was it new again:)

[Drew]

My new wallpaper.....