Dry Ice cooling

[microman]

http://www.madshrimps.be/?action=gethowto&howtoID=59

[microman]

Looks pretty "cool" but it's certinally not fesible.

[Rachel]

I saw cooling with liquid nitrogen before.

[The Grendel]

Yeah, wasn't the original Liquid Nitrogen Cryo Tower the first system to beat the 1Ghz barrier a few years back?

-Grendel

[Frakk]

an average person (non-metalworker/hardcore overclocker geek) has to be a real fanatic or crazy to do this

[Rachel]

Yeah, wasn't the original Liquid Nitrogen Cryo Tower the first system to beat the 1Ghz barrier a few years back?

-Grendel

I don't know, but I know that on the one I'm talking about they hit 5.25 GHz. That's just plain sick.

[cygnus_x_1]

I don't know, but I know that on the one I'm talking about they hit 5.25 GHz. That's just plain sick.

yeah, but for how long??? enough to run a benchmark if that...while its interesting, dry ice cooling will appeal to me when you can actually use the system at those speeds.

[The Grendel]

Cynus,
Rachel and I were talking about the Liquid Nitrogen cooled Cryo towers
With that the system would be stable enough to use.
Problem is that Liquid Nitrogen is Expensive and needs to be replaced every 3 months or so.
so Cryo towers have never really been sold on the open market.
theyre mainly used by companies to push CPUs to the absolute limit and then some.

-Grendel

[cygnus_x_1]

oh yeah, i know...

the 5.25 clock was macci i think...but yea LN2 right now is def not for every day use...

[X child]

Kinda funny how no one mentioned the chance of death in a dry ice setup.

"Carbon dioxide is heavier than air and it can concentrate in low areas or in enclosed spaces (like a car or a room where dry ice is sublimating). Normal air is 78% Nitrogen, 21% Oxygen and only 0.035% Carbon Dioxide. If the concentration of carbon dioxide in the air rises above 5%, carbon dioxide can become toxic."