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Power Your AMD Via Tesla Coils

Posted by chrisd on from the can't-imagine-that-passing-spec dept.

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."

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  1. Maybe I'm wrong.... by Sokie · · Score: 4, Informative

    ...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. :)

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    1. Re:Maybe I'm wrong.... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

      I know about tesla coils - i play with them as a hobby. The tesla coils in the pic look very real. Actually it looks to me like there is only one tesla coil in the picture. The other coil is a recieving coil tuned to the exact same frequency as the real coil so as to act as an attractor for the lightning strikes.

      I don't think the lightning effects are photoshop - thats exactly what a tesla coil looks like if u photograph it in the day time.

      This is without a doubt a joke - if u really did this you would fry the motherboard without a doubt. Tesla coils produce 100,000's of v's at frequencies of around 150Khz and very little average current (though peak current in a strike to ground can momentarily become very high).

      Look at http://www.hot-streamer.com for more pics and stuff and http://hot-streamer.com/christophertelford/teslaco ils/tesla3.html
      if you want some nice pictures / divX 5 videos of a real coil operating.

  2. wow, that's fake. by dirgotronix · · Score: 5, Informative

    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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  3. Mysterious. by Renraku · · Score: 5, Informative

    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.

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  4. Hoax - Look at the image URLs by abimelech · · Score: 5, Informative

    http://www.datenburg.de/download/sparks3.jpg
    http ://www.datenburg.de/download/sparks1.jpg
    http://o dense.kollegienet.dk/~madsj/images/cooling .jpg
    http://www.moloch.org/pn4pics/images/laser-c ooling .jpg
    http://www.xpcshop.idv.tw/img/raymond/46007. jpg

    Looks like none of those photos are his. That giant fan looked suspiciously familiar as well.

    It's still funny :)