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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."
I use MY Tesla Coil to talk to the ALIENS...
"Can of worms? The can is open... the worms are everywhere."
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.
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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.
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."
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Looks like none of those photos are his. That giant fan looked suspiciously familiar as well.
It's still funny
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.
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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.
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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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.
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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.
Mod me down and I will become more powerful than you can possibly imagine!
The nForce mainboard is also red, and that's from nVidia. Not sure about their GFX cards, though, and I can't remember what my Asus GeForce is.
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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...
Unless of course you know it's a joke right?
It's pretty amazing that over 90% of the posters think this is real or something. It's a JOKE. It's funny, laugh.
Now, for those of you who still think it's real... If you send me $40, I can tell you how to read women's minds.
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I've got a Sinclair ZX81 on a red fibreglass pcb. Issue 3 motherboard, with the decent bloody resistor packs but without the 2k upgrade jumper.
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.
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Oh, great. As if the air industry didn't have enough troubles. Now you want people to bring Tesla coils onto planes?
I'll take the non-smoking section.
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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.
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
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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Next Up - Tesla Powered Laptops!
What will they think of next!?
Hopefully some pretty lightweight Faraday Cages for hard drives given the huge EMP field assaulting the microscopic magnetic charge states on the hard drive platters.
Here... let me get my degausser and run it over my hard drives a few times and I'll enjoy the side effects of a Tesla Coil powered PC. Oh wait, that would be WRONG.
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