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Interon
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 Posted: Tue Feb 24, 2004 9:28 pm
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Um, if I put a block of dry ice (frozen carbon dioxide, about -180 celsius, REAL COLD!) on top of a CPU, would I make it a LOT faster?
(I heard that cold CPUs are faster than room temperature ones.) |
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Wally*Won_Kenobie
i r teh pwnage
Joined: 01 May 2003
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Location: Australia, earth, Milky way
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| Posted: Tue Feb 24, 2004 9:34 pm
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what on earth are you trying to do?
Ram ram and more ram?, Dead Cmos batterys, and now COLD CPUS lol
Good luck in trying to get anyone elses attention |
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Kazer0
Mercenary Dishwasher
Joined: 17 Sep 2002
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Location: In an igloo with my pet penguin, eh?
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| Posted: Tue Feb 24, 2004 9:34 pm
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| No, it wouldn't. Tou would freeze the chip and it wouldn't work at all. |
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johpower
Way too much free time
Joined: 06 Jan 2003
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Location: Colorado North 40
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| Posted: Wed Feb 25, 2004 2:43 am
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| Ye-ow! Dry ice is tooooo cold. Something around 40-50 degres would be the optimum if it could be maintained. There have been some good experiments below Zero, but in the home condensation would be the bugbear. One melt and you have an expensive scrap pile. |
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wardrich
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Location: Ontario Canada
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| Posted: Wed Feb 25, 2004 9:03 pm
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cooling the CPU only allows it to run faster IF you overclock it. The cooling is just there to prevent the chip from burning up.
-Richard- |
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johpower
Way too much free time
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Location: Colorado North 40
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| Posted: Thu Feb 26, 2004 2:28 pm
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| Somewhat true, but some gains have been seen in the ultracool area without changing speeds. It's possible the effect had to do with more than the CPU (i.e.: was the whole computer cooled or were other chips supercooled as well as the CPU). I haven't read the technical data as deeply as I could've since I couldn't do it easily myself. Still, it's interesting thinking about getting near to a superconducting state. |
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Interon
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| Posted: Thu Feb 26, 2004 4:10 pm
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| Yeah, I created this topic after reading about the guy who mounted his motherboard in a fridge and claimed he got some extra speed. |
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