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P4 2.80GHz Overclocked to 3.917GHz
vwbus writes "The guys at Muropaketti have taken a brand new Pentium 4 2.80GHz chip, bought a pint or so of liquid nitrogen and overclocked it to an astounding 3.917GHz. The Finns describe how they put together the system on their web page, and luckily there are a whole set of pictures which demonstrate exactly what they've done, so you don't need to understand Finnish to figure it out. The pictures show wisps of nitrogen evaporating from the jar sitting on top of the CPU, and they publish some SiSoft figures to demonstrate the kind of speeds they attained."
The folks at Muropaketti have had a lot of practice with this cooling method.
Why not just keep the processor outside :-)
Not for long!!!
Why are other peoples sig's always more witty ???
I don't know about liquid nitrogen, but you can pick up a pint of ben & jerry's anywhere... much tastier.
Don't try this at home. If you feel tempted, watch three times in a row "Terminator 2", and remember you are not made of liquid quicksilver, or whatever.
Rome taught me patience and assiduous application to detail. Virtues which temper the boldness of great, general views.
That's incredible--however they're using Windows, so I bet MS Office still takes hours to load ;)
Oh give me a board, that I can afford ;)
That can OC a P4 no prob.
Where liquid N 2, cools that hot CPU
And keeps you from doing your job
Oh they took a 2-8, to almost 4-G that's great,
Bun can this new speed get me laid?
The answer of course, one that I don't endorse,
is visit this link everyday!
Slashdot: Where people pretend to be twice as smart as they really are by behaving like children.
person 1: "I just got this brand new P4 2.8GHz CPU. What should I do with it?"
person 2: "Get a Radeon 9700 and get on top of the 3Dmark2001 benchmark list at Mad Onion?"
person 1: "Radeon hasn't come in yet..."
person 2: "Compile some software?"
person 1: "Already did that."
person 2: "Create a new anthropomorphic CGI character with a Jamaican accent?"
person 1: "Tried it, but for some reason the CGI software refuses to let me. Something about digital rights management and George Lucas."
person 2: "Rip some DVDs to DIVX?"
person 1: "Already did that. I think it's what pissed off George Lucas."
person 2: "Ah hell, lets just dump some liquid nitrogen on it and overclock it. It'll be like the Fast and The Furious if it blows up."
person 1: "Duuuuude! Great idea!"
Frostbite!
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Siggy, siggy, siggy, can't you see? Sometimes your puns just irritate me.
I want nitrogen evaporating from my pc too!
It's too cool!
...I don't even need liquid nitrogen to overclock my CPU.
I just give it The Fonzie and it runs like hellfire.
It really surprises me what some guys do... I mean what is the practical advantage of this? Just to proove what exactly?
Now, if they were to use the same system to get instant cold beer.. now that's something we can all use, but to work with a freezer on your desk....
1972: Typist's Elbow
1982: Space Invaders Wrist
1992: Carpal Tunnel Syndrome
2002: Your entire hand shatters after being frozen in liquid nitrogen.
I don't see any "AMD Approved" sticker.
Ali
[Apoligies, but someone was gonna say it sooner or later!]
Ph33r m3!!!
It's strange seeing a processor run at sub zero. I'm used to popping popcorn inside my Athlon's case whenever I wanna watch a movie.
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And you can't really "see" water vapor. The resulting "vision" is actually photons reflecting from or refracting throught the water and stimulating retinal nerves.
See this this link for full instructions and pictures.
Take the cheese to sickbay, the doctor should see it as soon as possible - B'Elanna Torres, "Learning Curve"
I had a professor who told us of a practical joke he'd do every few years. He was fond of explosions and other cool things liquid oxygen and nitrogen being no exception.
Appearently he used to fill on of the fingers in a latex glove with hamburger, then put his hands in the glove. Careful to conceal his deception, he would stick stick his false finger into a some liquid nitrogen, while telling the class about how if one just left a finger in there it would shatter if struck. He then proceeded to demonstrate this by smashing the false and frozen finger with a hammer.
The way he tells the story, he was forced to discontinue this irregular practice when a bit of frozen hamburger hit a girl in the front row, causing her to faint.
And a styrofoam cup with a piece of what appears to be copper pipe, held together with duct tape and dreams, while it might be cool, doesn't rise to what I would consider "gear".
--Jimmy has fancy plans; and pants to match.
Now it can wait on the hard drive faster.
If you aren't part of the solution, there is good money to be made prolonging the problem
is not ten liters. Ten liters is ~20 pints.
You work for Nasa?
I guess P4s really DO make the Internet go faster!