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."

Comments

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[niko9]

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.

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[theMerovingian]

Mozilla: Liquid nitrogen for flash adds

And it still won't run Doom3

[MikeCapone]

Oh well, I bet it'll get really good time in Seti.

In other news...

[ackthpt]

P4 to 5.25GHz with Liquid Nitrogen.

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.

5+ GHz

[bmiller949]

The question is, how fast did it play solitaire once Windoze was booted?

Warts too?

[kevcol]

I have an Athlon that seems to be growing warts. Will this take care of that as well?

Custom what?

[Wireless Joe]

Custom copper cooling head? That's a bong if I've ever seen one.

It's all giggles until someone loses consciousness

[Anonymous Coward]

"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).

Letter from the Editor

[dsanfte]

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

Three Observations (Serious and Otherwise)

[Nova Express]

1. Now this P4 is so fast that you can get a Windows Blue Screen of Death within seconds of booting it up!
2. Watch it still lose to a Dual G5 in Photoshop bakeoffs.
3. Check out this line from Page 11: " At this clock rate, however, benchmark tests were no longer possible." In other words, this overclocked beauty doesn't actually work at that speed! If it's too unstable to use for real software, it hardly counts as a real innovation.

Brainstorming

[michaelmalak]

From the THG story:

With just weeks to go to Christmas, the THG crew got together to offer our loyal readers and especially the hardcore geeks among us something really special. Our brainstorming session quickly lead to extreme overclocking.

Oh the creativity -- it's blinding! A computer hardware website investigating overclocking!

NERD ALERT!!!

[swordgeek]

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.