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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. What a waste! by stefanlasiewski · · Score: 5, Funny

    I use MY Tesla Coil to talk to the ALIENS...

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  2. 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.

  3. Pfft. by p00ya · · Score: 5, Funny
    If he was smart, he'd have used all the excess heat released to power the tesla coils... And what about all those spare photons coming from that monitor.

    Any real inventor would make sure it had an infinite supply of power.

  4. 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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  5. 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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  6. Defective or broken parts... by stefanlasiewski · · Score: 4, Funny

    After obliterating his computer with a Tesla Coil, will he return the parts as defective or broken?

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  7. 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 :)

  8. Re:power your CPU by burning wood by Anonymous+DWord · · Score: 4, Interesting

    I wish I could power my CPU by getting wood. It would be like a perpetual energy system!

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  9. Dangerous, but its the only way to save us all! by fireboy1919 · · Score: 5, Funny

    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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  10. wow by austad · · Score: 5, Funny

    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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