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Vapochilled Pentium 4 System At 3.3GHz

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the cool-stuff dept.

SpinnerBait writes "Overclocking the Personal Computer has gotten considerably more elegant over the past few years and there is now an entire industry dedicated to it. One of the latest innovations is super cooling processors down to sub zero temperatures with standard vapor phase refrigeration, in an effort to allow clock speeds to crank far beyond manufacturer specifications. This article takes a look at the Asetek Vapochill, a Vapor Phase Refrigerated PC Case, that chilled a 2.8GHz Pentium 4 down to -7C and allows it to run stable in a workstation environment at 3.3GHz and beyond."

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  1. Why? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    So i can make linux kernel panic faster, yeah right.

  2. Why? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    So I can make windows crash faster? Yeah right.

  3. Chilling, scary PC's by Lover's+Arrival,+The · · Score: -1, Troll
    This is funny, just last weekend I was going through an old cupboard in the hallway, and right at the back I found a big box full of my my ex-boyfriend's boxer shorts and books, and also a paper he had written about keeping processors cool. He worked as some sort of systems engineer, did James, and he used to worry about cooling down processors for "mobile solutions" or something really rather a lot.

    I read it, not at first out of interest for the topic, but just so I could see his handwriting, and remember something of his personality and what we used to have together. It was not long before I, amazingly, found myself sucked into the content though. It turns out my old lover, now sadly left, had discovered that processors have been getting running temperatures higher and higher and hihger for the last ten years, needing bigger and bigger and bigger fans. one part had a graph showing a projection of the size of fans that may be needed in ten years if the trend is to continue, and then it went into thermodynamics a lot and new cooling techniques using some sort of silicone gell circulating over and around the surface of the chip silently, but there were a lot of Greek letters by then, I didn't really understand it and only kept on reading for him.

    As a Scottish Catholic, I am not used to the American ideals of the pursuit of knowledge. Where I come from, there is very little innovation and a lot of prejudice and hate. But here in Bangor, since he brought me here, although I have found a lot of pain I have discovered that people are far more inventive and innovative. Even in just cooling PC's!

    And although this inventiveness is a wonderful thing, I sometimes think that Americans can be a bit too inventive, especially in the bedroom.

    It seeps into every region of their life, and this is wondrous and interesting, but I think the Protean nature that it engenders in Americans means that they suffer from a lack of identity through always reinventing themselves, nothing ever stable.

    Perhaps the price payed for greater invention and thus economic performance is paid for socially, by a lack of moral surety and stability in most Americans lifes I have noticed as an immigrant.

    Can it really be worth a better economy and cooler PCs? I'm not sure.

    Margot, xxx.

    --

    --Anticipation of a New Lover's Arrival, The

  4. Ewwww by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    This stuff in his In here!

  5. Finns will beat these suckers by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    The Muropaketti guys will beat these losers all the way with their liquid nitrogen cooling solution...

  6. Ooh 15% I can wait and get that for free. by Performer+Guy · · Score: 1, Troll

    Oooh you mean I can get another 15% performance is I install a fridge in my PC? Why don't I just wait a month and buy the next version and save the money, hastle and electricity.