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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. Comment removed by account_deleted · · Score: 5, Interesting

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  2. Spending that kind of money on overclocking... by MikeCapone · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Doesn't it defeat the purpose of overclocking?

    I thought you did that to get more out of your CPU than what you paid for.

    If you are spending more on the cooling than on the computer, then why not get a faster one, or a second one (or dual, or whatever)?

    Heh, I guess there's the whole hobby "I do it because it's fun!" thing that explains it...

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  3. Damaging to the machines? by Alphanos · · Score: 5, Interesting

    I don't know much about this kind of cooling, but if the compressors are being used to cool the air going through these machines, wouldn't they be worried about physically damaging the machines by cracking them? Keeping a computer cool is all well and good, but at a certain temperature the physical elements composing the hardware are bound to contract different amounts, causing damage. Maybe this only happens at -250 degrees, and not -100, but presumably there is a reason that hardware manufacturers state a minimum operating temperature for their components.

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  4. Re:Why? by wackybrit · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Because the colder you make a processor, the further you can push it.

    If you can keep a chip at 0 celsius (as you can with many PC cooling units out there), you can get at least another 1GHz out of your chip, meaning your 3GHz PC is now a 4GHz power house.

    And so it goes with the lower you go. At -100C you could probably keep your 3GHz PC up at around the 14GHz area, which is way faster than anything on the market. Isn't it worth the money on cooling to experience a slice of tomorrow?

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