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Doomsday PC-Cooling With Dual-Cascade Coolers
An anonymous reader submits "Four (4) compressors cooling one PC! Yes, it's big, yes it's heavy, yes it's loud and yes it does get your CPU and GPU cold, very cold. Is -100C cold enough for you? Cascade cooling is yet another chapter in a Finnish overclocker's neverending quest for optimal PC performance. Those things go down to -80 to -100C and can maintain the temperature. See here for the whole article with the pictures of the project."
....wouldn't they just put their computers outside to get this kind of cooling?
It's not cold enough unless it can offset global warming. AND refrigerate my beer.
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(O.o) This is Bunny. (> <)
A Beowulf cluster of compressors on a Beowulf cluster of computers!
Umm.....
It is pitch black. You are likely to be eaten by a grue.
Billy Bob, don't cha think ya got a little too much time on your hands?
Wouldn't your legs and feet get cold sitting next to that thing?
Quid festinatio swallonis est aetherfuga inonusti?
Africus aut Europaeus?
Perhaps they should consider applying this research to their webserver, which appears to be having dififculties keeping up with requests ATM...
Looks like Intel might license this for their new P4s at 4 GHz. After cooling it down, the chip is almost cool enough to run!
Keep playing around with stuff at -100 and the quest is going to end one way or another
Yes, it's big, yes it's heavy, yes it's loud and yes it does get your CPU and GPU cold, very cold.
You talking about my wife?
New year Resolution: Don't change sig this year
How close to absolute zero would we have to cool a processor so that we could overclock it enough to handle a good slashdotting?
I browse Slashdot at +3, Funny
What's the finnish word for ... compensating?
...as if having a CPU running at -100C would save them from server meltdown when the full brunt of brutal slashdotting hits them!!
Muahahahaaa.. <manical laughter echoing in the dungeon>
looks like someone is ignoring the fact that overcooling your processor will lead to early failure.
someone will be able to play doom 3 on doomsday
intellectual property law is philosophically incoherent. it is your moral duty to ignore it or sabotage it
Parts of the neighborhood will absorb the helium and float away into the sky.
no, no, liquid plutonium is far deadlier
intellectual property law is philosophically incoherent. it is your moral duty to ignore it or sabotage it
(with apologies to Inigo Montoya)
Wah!
But what is that in F?
"Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, it doesn't go away." - Philip K. Dick
how about liquid mercury. oh never mind.
and they still can't wring out enough power to avoid being slashdotted...
With all that was spent on the cooling he could have bought a new processor instead of overclocking his 386 to 4Ghz.
"Sic Semper Tyrannosaurus Rex."
If they can make PC case big and put a door in it, it can be used for long-term food storage. 'Internet connected refrigirator' anyone? :)
On the other side, with freezing turned off, you can cook food on CPU, which qualifies it for 'Internet connected owen'.
Useful thingie. And a computer too!
-- grmbl woz heer
..when it's dark for 20 hours a day for 5 months..
hmm. so to be absolutely safe, you either wear a parka while working with liquid N2 or go buck naked. That sounds like a reality tv show right there.
"You fell victim to one of the classic blunders. The most famous is 'Never get involved in a land war in Asia.' But only slightly less well known is this: "Never go in against Slashdot when bandwidth is on the line. Ha ha ha ha..." PFFT.... host not found...
Why do I have this? I don't smoke.
... and AMD/Intel will bring out a processor with that clock speed anyway! And he'll look a bit stupid when his friends have their 4 Ghz desktops and
he's got his 4Ghz , err , industrial freezer!