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Doomsday PC-Cooling With Dual-Cascade Coolers

Posted by timothy on from the preserves-salmon-too dept.

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."

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  1. In Finland... by inteller · · Score: 5, Funny

    ....wouldn't they just put their computers outside to get this kind of cooling?

    1. Re:In Finland... by Soporific · · Score: 4, Funny

      I know that's what we do here in Minnesota. Of course we only can overclock for what seems like 11 months out of the year, but you do have to get out every now and then to soak up some vitamin D. ~S

    2. Re:In Finland... by Shut+the+fuck+up! · · Score: 5, Funny

      ....wouldn't they just put their computers outside to get this kind of cooling?

      No, you got it all wrong. He is overclocking to stay warm. All those compressors must generate a lot of heat.

    3. Re:In Finland... by Zapper · · Score: 4, Funny

      Just make the holes a bit bigger and you may have an internal NIC for this guy.

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    4. Re:In Finland... by Uma+Thurman · · Score: 4, Funny

      Sort of like In Soviet Finland, refridgerators heat your house? Very amusing.

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  2. Not Quite by qewl · · Score: 5, Funny

    It's not cold enough unless it can offset global warming. AND refrigerate my beer.

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    1. Re:Not Quite by notyou2 · · Score: 3, Funny

      "Lisa, in this house... --[fuck it, nevermind]--

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  3. IMAGINE.... by TheDarkener · · Score: 5, Funny

    A Beowulf cluster of compressors on a Beowulf cluster of computers!

    Umm.....

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  4. Cold feet by Capt'n+Hector · · Score: 3, Funny

    Wouldn't your legs and feet get cold sitting next to that thing?

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  5. Practical application? by Aviancer · · Score: 4, Funny

    Perhaps they should consider applying this research to their webserver, which appears to be having dififculties keeping up with requests ATM...

  6. Nice. by i_am_syco · · Score: 4, Funny

    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!

  7. neverending quest? by toddhunter · · Score: 4, Funny

    Keep playing around with stuff at -100 and the quest is going to end one way or another

  8. big and heavy? by civilengineer · · Score: 5, Funny

    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?

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  9. absolute zero? by psoriac · · Score: 4, Funny

    How close to absolute zero would we have to cool a processor so that we could overclock it enough to handle a good slashdotting?

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  10. The finnish ... by KRYnosemg33 · · Score: 5, Funny

    What's the finnish word for ... compensating?

  11. counterproductive by mkavanagh · · Score: 3, Funny

    looks like someone is ignoring the fact that overcooling your processor will lead to early failure.

  12. Re:minimum temperature by circletimessquare · · Score: 4, Funny

    no, no, liquid plutonium is far deadlier

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  13. Re:minimum temperature by McAddress · · Score: 4, Funny

    how about liquid mercury. oh never mind.