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Power Your AMD Via Tesla Coils
Propane writes "Here's a fine gentleman that decided to power his AthlonXP via a Tesla Coil right here at arstechnia. Looks like he has some cooling issues, he is currently looking for suggestions on cooling, maybe he can get some tips from
Misson: Submersible."
someone has too much time on his hands!!!!
We played dungeons and dragons for 3 hours.....then i was slain by an elf
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What will they think of next!?
-- Ilya
I use MY Tesla Coil to talk to the ALIENS...
"Can of worms? The can is open... the worms are everywhere."
this is getting sick....
creativity at its finest but english needs help.
Too much time on his hands!
Me thinks the SETI aliens he's looking for will notice the tesla sparks before he notices the aliens.
I'm sure there's noise limit laws to prevent this kind of thing (:
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...but those first 2 shots of the "arcs" from his "Tesla coils" look a hell of a lot like the lightning effect from Photoshop.
:)
Maybe not, but with no actual details on the page...I'm skeptical.
-Sokie
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Any real inventor would make sure it had an infinite supply of power.
isnt this WAY overboard? first off, the bottleneck in overclocking is not power, but cooling. second, he doesnt even say what clock speed the thing is running at. third, to say that other people should do this to crunch seti WU's is idiotic because you can buy a barebones WU-crunching athlon machine for a few hundred bucks.
but is it cool? hell yeah its cool.
What would take to get on slashdot after this? A computer with a gas generator built into the case? (Pull start, of course.)
*abullshit*
Scuse me. Got a cold.
Wow, that has got to be the worst arrangement of misc. pictures I have ever seen. None of the pictures there are even closely related. In no way does the person show how it would be possible to link a tesla coil of that size to his pc, and in the next picture, of the pc in front of the industrial fan, it has a power supply (oh wait, didn't he say he needed to remove that?)
Amusing for the overclocking crowd, but even more amusing if you believe it.
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This is supposed to be a joke. is this the 1st of april? Dudes, it's a joke! but then again, this IS /. :P
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First of all, the poster of the pictures doesn't speak very good English. Second, all he shows is a few Tesla coils in action, a computer, and some cooling devices. I do believe this is what we like to call a 'hoax'. And if he did get it to work, he should post details on how that Athlon XP could survive at the voltages required to power a Tesla coil. Give some designs or something, not just badly narrated pictures of random objects.
Job? I don't have time to get a job! Who will sit around and bitch about being broke and unemployed then?
A very cool/funny hoax. The post says "Now it crunch a workunit within 50 minutes!!!" and "my new farm will end the seti.germany-threat forever!" I completely dig this, terribly funny... but shouldn't /. put this under the "Its funny. Laugh." category? You don't have to know too much about the way computers work to know that replacing your power suppy with a bigger beefier one will in no noticable way effect your processing power.
The only way i could see this as a serious Slashdot headline would be to post it on April first.
After obliterating his computer with a Tesla Coil, will he return the parts as defective or broken?
"Can of worms? The can is open... the worms are everywhere."
Someone has too much free time. You can't have time on your hands, think about it.
I thought only ATI cards printed their circuits on red PCB.
Job? I don't have time to get a job! Who will sit around and bitch about being broke and unemployed then?
I think this is the first post in like a day to a site that won't be crushed in 30 seconds!!
cool keyboard in the pics too!
Anyone else notice the URLs of the images? They're all from different hosts.
http://www.datenburg.de/download/sparks3.jpgp ://www.datenburg.de/download/sparks1.jpgo dense.kollegienet.dk/~madsj/images/cooling .jpgc ooling .jpg. jpg
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http://www.moloch.org/pn4pics/images/laser-
http://www.xpcshop.idv.tw/img/raymond/46007
Looks like none of those photos are his. That giant fan looked suspiciously familiar as well.
It's still funny
Looks like some people even believe in this hoax. Maybe this is a marketing study, where they try to measure if it is profitable to sell some new "technical miracle" to unsuspecting people.
We have seen a lot of cool pictures of tesla coils recently on slashdot, but I have not seen a single word about the dangers of high voltage! It should be reminded, that tesla coils are extremely dangerous and they are not toys. You can get killed if you start playing with them.
If you follow what he is saying it makes no sense at all :) Backed up by the fact the images are all nicked from other sources and the power supply is very obviously still in the case and powering the motherboard...
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From the look of this setup, I have a strange feeling this guy did a tour of duty on that Russian refueling station in Armageddon. Wonder if he quit smoking.
It is generally a bad idea to hook up several HUNDERED THOUSAND volts to any computer. Unless you have that one from the Superman movie (and have some one-man blimps to carry you and your henchmen to your secret lair*).
* Superhero seeking missle not included.
OK, so exactly how is a Tesla coil supposed to make your Athlon run faster?
Tesla coils produce high voltage (1000s of volts) but not much amperage. This kind of voltage would probably zap your Athlon into oblivion...
And as someone else pointed out, there's no mention of clock speeds - a processor won't run faster just because you feed it high voltage.
I'm trying to figure out why this is even on Slashdot to begin with. Is this some ingenious way of modding a system (Quickly becoming the computer equivalent of "rice rocket" Civics)? No, it does not:
Improve the system's performance - as one poster has already mentioned, other bottlenecks exist which would more efficiently improve the system.
Look cool - call me crazy, but his setup looks like my old Pentium 100 I can't bear to throw away. I've seen some really great case mods on /. and this doesn't even qualify.
Now, is this a new way to power a system? Perhaps, but usable -- never! What purpose does this serve to anybody? Do we learn anything? Not really.
I guess what I'm trying to say is that Slashdot needs to have a better criteria for what is being posted. Clearly updates on the newest version of Mozilla is acceptable as we are, for the most part, users of alternative products (non M$), yea even the claim of the third moon affects our intragalactic geography. But a Tesla Coil powered system (that looks completely fake)? C'mon, this has no relevance to anybody.
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If this is indeed real, he is obviously doing this for the FLARE. I imagine it can look pretty impressive to the non-iniated, and young wanna-be geek. Or even to stoned girlfriends, who like the pretty lights. She'll find it useful lighting her blunt with the SPARKS.
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This is just lame. I wish the guy actual would have hooked up a tesla coil to his mobo. It would make for a much more interesting story.
I can't wait for the quantum computers. It'll be funny watching people try to squeeze a few more exa-flops out of thier computers via relativity.
I also wonder if slashdot is dwindling. Did the upper eschelon leave once a more general public caught on?
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that this is a joke right? Those are just photos from around the web. I've seen the giant fan one before and I remember the person remarking how its just sits near his PC and he would never actually turn it on.
Any $25 power supply can easily provide more than enough juice to any AMD XP cpu. Worst case you vmod the motherboard, not use some sort of high power telsa coil.
So oogle at the Telsa coils, but realize he's not actually powering anything with them, nor using those giant fans.
Its a joke people.!
I always thought of hooking a tesla coil up to a computer to be more of a security option. Heck, I want one to skeletonize the PHB that keeps entering my cube.
I wish I could power my CPU by getting wood. It would be like a perpetual energy system!
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I've done research about this. I've seen all of the movies about lightning and read all of the comic books. They lead to this conclusion:
1) The main effect of lightning is that you black out. When you wake up, something will be different.
2) Usually the different thing is your brain. You may have gained ESP, or perhaps telekinesis.
3) Sometimes the result of a lightning strike is speed. Since lightning moves so fast, it may transfer this speed into you. It is also possible that conditions #2 and #3 both happen, meaning that you think super-fast.
4) Occasionally, the electricity of the lightning will be transferred to you. If this happens, you have most likely become a being of pure energy, capable of jumping into electrical sockets, flying, etc. You'll also have super speed, since as we know, electricity is fast.
5) If its a rare, freak accident, you may not gain any super powers at all. However, this means that something important happened to someone ELSE while you were passed out. Perhaps, for example, your arch-nemesis kidnapped your fiance. This is most likely to happen if you already HAVE super powers, or at least really cool talents.
6) All plasma state electrical discharges have the same capabilities of imbuing super powers as lightening does. Be warned, however, that when you do experiments in a LAB involving lighting, you're likely to get a side effect of criminal insanity due to the electrical strike, especially if you already know a super-hero or are working late into the night. If your an ASSISTANT of someone else who is doing the work, and you're just there because you're trying to make money for a good reason (for instance, to buy your mother a nice birthday present), you're almost guaranteed to get super powers if there is an accident.
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its fake. WTF good would a tesla coil do in powering an athlon that a pc power supply wouldn't?
Think about it..
if you can.
Anyways, this is a hoax. There is no need for all of that stuff. Why is this here?
Unless we decide to try quantum computing right new to a black hole, I don't think relativity has anything to do with it.
...it's troll odor.
If Slashdot had moderation for articles, this one would be:
Interesting=5, Troll=24, Funny=69, Offtopic=3, Total=Almost Funny.
this is fake! . can somebody please remove it from the main page
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even the slightest variation in voltage can cause the cpu to malfunction or to worse to be permanently fried. I've seen this happen before. This is definetly a hoax.
This is a fake;
1) If you check the URL'ds of the images, they are coming from different sources.
2) The Lightning coming of the coils is a photoshop effect
3) The Tesla Coils are not Tesla Coils at all. If you look at the bottom of the structires, they are being held in place with plastic plant pots. These wouls melt in seconds
4) Everyone on the board over at arestechnica is laughing at us
At least we gave them a few hits...
Next idea: Apply those Tesla coils to Taco's shock therapy ...
you don't call saturday night live jokes hoaxes either, do you?
world was created 5 seconds before this post as it is.
What he needs is my case to cool his system down
-dk
Unless of course you know it's a joke right?
xbox running LINUX once the OPEN SOURCE MOVEMENT ports it over?
It's pretty amazing that over 90% of the posters think this is real or something. It's a JOKE. It's funny, laugh.
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Power my AMD via Testicles?? WTF! Slashdot is gross!
This is a VAN DE GRAFF generator, not a TESLA generator. Next you techno dweebs will be calling a Whimshurst generator a football. Trancendental Mediocrity at it's best...
How is that moderated as being interesting? Damn funny, yes. But interesting?
... Looks a bit fake. The third pic down I've had on my machine for over a year and the fourth doesn't seem to correspond to the fifth (needed more cooling then pic of fans).
Oh well.
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it was a penis joke... How can it be interesting... Unless that is funny...
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everyone knows that tesla coils will only work with sparc processors.
Must have some /extremely/ static RAM.
But I think I want the big fan...
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people with user #'s of 4 digits or less just read slashdot to remind themselves it was all better when...... .... meanwhile we all hang out on boards you guys can't even find ;)
Occasionally our highly sophisticated intelligent agents write stuff to convince everyone slashdot is still populated by *real* hackers.
Meanwhile I have this rather clever water powered windmill that drives a wind turbine to pump up oil which I use to turn an internal combustion engine which drives my laptop. When the laptop is off, I use the excess power to fill up my water reservior. At night I use my batteryless solar torches to power a tesla coil to run a rather natty blue fluorescent tube.
or something
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Got a funny idea that may help: assign karma to editors too, not only regular users. So when a editor posts a dupe or troll, he gets hit.
Bad karma, Mr. Editor? Ya not posting on the front page for a while sir!
stop moderating on slashdot and get back to class, or they will complain to your parents.
it's bull KAKA!
check the img url's!
Somebody get this off slashdot. Your given yourselves and all your readers a bad name!
GET THIS OFF THE SITE!
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ChrisD is a moron. I agree with an earlier poster about editor karma; let's hit 'em where it hurts.
How do you make a PC go faster by applying more power??
See, I always said those 'bzzz' things on Flash Gordon were the way to go!
Hello? do you not see that the picture url's are from like 4 different sites? Someone pulled a little prank, I almost fell for it :/.
Like someone already asked in the forum:
will this tesla coil stop the gdi? this one failed to do that.
this house must be where he lives.
------ hi mom
Can't people recognize and appreciate a joke? For a "story" posted around 1am, there sure is a lot of griping going on.
Read it, laugh, move along. If you can't, then just get over it or go away.
How do you make a PC go faster by applying more power?
The same way superman makes room-temperature water freeze by blowing on it.
It's being said on the arstechnica forum so I thought I'd pass it along to you guys (in case you don't realize it yet). It's not supposed to be REAL or a HOAX, it's supposed to be funny.
You don't need to check image urls to know that.
*shake head*
- Josiah
interesting no no no...
Informative.
Hey, come on. This is slashdot. Someone mention a beowulf cluster of these running Linux and how MS tesla coils crash more often.
Today's slashdot reader is like a guy with a Harley Davidson t-shirt who drives a honda accord.
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I knew it!! but i thought you'd use a RAT powered windmill that drives a wind turbine (being DANISH) to pump up oil which I use to oVerclock an internal combustion engine which drives my (freedom hacking MSBusting) laptop. When the laptop is off,(to hang out on other boards) I use the excess power to fill up my water reservior. At night I use my batteryless solar torches(Walmart $19.99 BUY NOW!) to power a tesla coil to run a rather natty blue fluorescent tube(Also available on GIMP in multi color wonder) Seriously, I am on /. because it gives me political power.
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This is a joke, of course, but I haven't seen anyone point out the most obviously ludicrous aspect of it: a tesla coil isn't a power source, any more than a conventional transformer is. It's a load, powered by some external source of electricity.
That said, the pictures of the operating coil are pretty cool... biggest tesla I ever built used an electric fence transformer and threw an arc of 6 inches or so...
Telsa coils produce massive amounts of voltage in order to cross their gap and although you are looking at greatly decreased amperage, you are still producing a hefty amount of wattage... now I will bypass stuff that can be argued such as the origin of the pictures and the like, we can't prove that but as usual we can use science to prove all... Reason why it's a HOAX #1 Now an experiment for the kiddies: Take one of your numerous AOL CDs and toss it in the microwave for only two seconds... what happens? you vaporize the aluminum inside of the CD. Now the wires on a PCB are a lot thicker than the tiny layer of foil in the CD however they are still rather thin and would be exposed for longer than two seconds. You would do immense damage to the wires of the mobo itself. Now take into account all of the basic circuits on a mobo. Run line voltage through one of those resistors and it explodes, run that kind of power through them and kiss them goodbye. Not to mention all those far more sensitive things like processors..... why this is a HOAX #2 Telsa coils are made to arc electricity over fairly long distances (as far as electricty is concerned anyway) if you run that much power through a motherboard with tiny (less than a millimeter on a board) spaces between the wires and what have you? a massive mess of electro-magnetic trash. You'd have electricity arcing from wire to wire, solder joint to solder joint, in other words, not a useable computer at all at best all it is a massive waste of electricity and a fire hazard. Lastly, I'd like to say that my warm feelings for slash dot have been harshed a bit by this, as if postings for porn pages showing up in the forums wern't bad enough... Really, slashdot is supposed to be about science and computers, not ridiculous ideas like using a tesla coil to power a computer (which btw, a tesla coil doesn't produce electricty, but I figure you all know that much). Granted, it's funny, but it IS a joke, if you thought it was real, I have some beach front property and a perpetual motion machine to sell you.
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All of the parent post was cut and pasted from http://www.haxial.com/fraud/mikeaba.html as referenced in another /. story, but unfortunately the /. lameness filter forced me to retype it in mixed case.
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Wow 2: What a bunch of fools you who believed the bloke are
Wow 3: How could he get the figures so wrong! >80% of users use Windows because not only /. see the forum!
The original picture of the laser-cooling unit in the arst Tesla joke was from moloch.
tommEE changed it.
Now it's REALLY funny.
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