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Pushing P4 to 5.25GHz with Liquid Nitrogen
SkywalkerOS8 writes "The folks at Tom's Hardware have an article up about their attempt to overclock a Pentium 4 over 5 GHz using liquid nitrogen as cooling. A DivX video is available along with pictures of the custom copper cooling head they made."
I think they should have splashed some nitrogen on some of those flash ads. Gives me a headcahe just looking at the main page.
Also makes my Thinkpad screech to a crawl.
they should have pored it on good ol' Tom and then put a hammer to him to see if he'd break into little pieces.
relax im kidding.
Oh well, I bet it'll get really good time in Seti.
Treehugger? Treehugger... Treehugger!
In other news...
A rose achieved 3.7GHz and a segment of rubber hose was clocked to 7.5GHz. A red rubber ball, however was unable to surpass 300 MHz befor shattering.
A feeling of having made the same mistake before: Deja Foobar
The question is, how fast did it play solitaire once Windoze was booted?
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I think that's the topic of an upcoming story, be patient.
I have an Athlon that seems to be growing warts. Will this take care of that as well?
Custom copper cooling head? That's a bong if I've ever seen one.
They must have received an early beta of the new MS OS. They need more horsepower.
I can imagine it now, one careless motion and SMASH your CPU is in itty bitty pieces.
Karma Whoring for Fun and Profit.
FP!
hmm, maybe i should get one of these. My processor is kinda slow...
The Braying and Neighing of Barnyard Animals Follows.
"Wild" Bill Zollar, my Chem 140 professor told us the story about how ever couple or four years he'd do a liquid nitrogen demonstration. The common freeze it break it variety, which he personally didn't find exciting enough to suit his tastes. So he'd don two latex gloves having filled up the thumb of one with ground beef. He would then dunk the thumb of ground round into the liquid nitrogen while he was talking and then take it out and hit it with a hammer. Appearently, the last year he did it, a chuck of his flash frozen fake finger hit a girl in the head, causing her to pass out! Which in turn got HIM sent to the dean's office, and why he couldn't do it for us, and hasn't done it since.
Or so the story went (as I recall).
But does "Tom's Hardware" sound like a gay porn site name
MoFscker
Dear Slashdot Reader:
Thank you for pointing out to us the dangers of condensation. We have taken steps to address this problem.
Instead of simply dehumidifying the air, in true Tom's Hardware Style(tm), our next overclocking attempt will take place in the vacuumn of space.
Sincerely,
Tom's Hardware
occultae nullus est respectus musicae - originally a Greek proverb
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Yeah, they could spend their time on more productive pursuits, like porting linux to their toasters...
Why oh why are so many geeks so friggin mechanically DUMB?
This is a pretty interesting question. I would wager that the geeks of old, having no computers invested their time learning about machines. But with no internet to speak of, how could they amass their collections of pornography ? I've heard that in the old days, pornography was distributed in something similar to a cheap book. You could appearently buy it at a place called "the corner store". I searched google for hours, but I couldn't find anymore information. I would assume that the store is located on some sort of corner, but the corner of what - I wonder.
In Soviet America the banks rob you!
I overclocked for two years on Ritalin.
Pull my finger for my public key.
Hmm. Safety gloves? Protective glasses?
You can definitely tell that these are computer geeks, and not chemistry geeks. Liquid nitrogen is remarkably safe stuff to play with, unless you're deeply stupid about it.
"People who do stupid things with hazardous materials often die." -- Jim Davidson on alt.folklore.urban
Why do people soup up their Honda Civic with mods instead of buying a better car?
;)
Why do people buy Acura with leather seats and high-end mods instead of buying a better BMW for the same price?
Why do people install super cool alarm systems in their cars when you can buy cheaper insurance to cover the same thing?
If you don't know the answer, you never will
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and mostly that the cops don't appreciate me going 328mph through the school zone.
Yeah, but let's see them try to stop you.