Liquid Nitrogen Beats Air Cooling (Again)

joe094287523459087 writes "some guys used liquid nitrogen cooling via a cardboard tube to get a 20,000 3D Mark score. you can see the frost forming on everything - wouldn't the moisture from the condensation kill the board?" The Muropaketti guys had already done this with their microprocessor. Apparently the next step was to speed up their graphics card to match.

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What's the point?

[_avs_007]

So you can some awesome performance. What's the point? Lets say the guy does some UT testing and gets dick hardening results. But isn't that useless if when you're playing the game, and:

1.) The frost/condensation shorts out the board
2.) You run out of liquid nitrogen, and the board fries itself, locking up the game.

There is nothing like playing UT while worrying about filling up the liquid nitrogen. With my luck, I'd end up accidently pouring the liquid nitrogen directly on the board, causing it to fiercly boil, and I'd drop the dewar flask and get the shit all over my hands.

Besides, the blazing speed of the graphics will probably do nothing for me, so long as I have to deal with flaky lag on my broadband connection.

Re:Liquid Nitrogen Beats Air Cooling (Again)

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1899 "Everything that can be invented has already been invented.", Charles H. Duell, director of the U.S. Patent Office

1943 "I think there is a world market for maybe five computers.", Thomas Watson, chairman of IBM.

1949 "Computers in the future may weigh no more than 1.5 tons.", Popular Mechanics, forecasting the relentless march of science.

1957 "I have travelled the length and breadth of this country and talked with the best people, and I can assure you that data processing is a fad that won't last out the year." The editor in charge of business books for Prentice Hall.

1965 Moore's law published by Gordon Moore in the 35th Anniversary edition of Electronics magazine. Originally suggesting processor complexity every year the law was revised in 1975 to suggest a doubling in complexity every two years.

1968 "But what ... is it good for?" Engineer at the Advanced Computing Systems Division of IBM commenting on the microchip.

1977 "There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home." Ken Olson, president, chairman and founder of Digital Equipment Corp..

1980 "DOS addresses only 1 Megabyte of RAM because we cannot imagine any applications needing more." Microsoft on the development of DOS.

1981 "640k ought to be enough for anybody.", Bill Gates

1992 "Windows NT addresses 2 Gigabytes of RAM which is more than any application will ever need". Microsoft on the development of Windows NT

Stolen from http://www.ox.compsoc.net/~swhite/history/timeline -QUOTES.html