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Ultimate Cooling System

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the break-out-the-thermal-underwear dept.

OCGeek writes "This should be interesting for the overclockers as VR-Zone has an article up on building a cascade cooling system that cools chips down to -110C. The guide shows you the components that are required for the cascade cooling system such as the compressors, condensers, refrigerants, evaporators, heat exchangers, oil separators etc. and the tools you would need. It allows hot chip like Prescott to reach over 5.1Ghz and ATi Radeon 9800 XT card to reach over 660Mhz core."

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  1. ??? Profit? by fuzzy12345 · · Score: 5, Interesting
    There's software guys, hardware guys, and now, HVAC guys??

    This seems a little complex and extreme for the home builder. Maybe a specialty co-lo opportunity, though? "Icebox netbox"? No good for gamers, of course. But for others who need MIPS for problems that can't be parallelized...

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  2. Why not use backside thinning by G4from128k · · Score: 4, Interesting

    These techniques seem like brute force schemes to deal with the thermal resistance of chip packages -- you have to cool the heatsink to -110C in order to keep the "intel inside" at less than +60C). Why not use backside thinning. to bring the hot circuits of the processor within microns of a high coolant flux chamber. Backside thinning could get the coolant to within 10 microns of the junctions. If the CCD people can thin a massive 2k x 2k CCDs (the die is bigger than 1" square), I'm sure an enterprising overclocker could thin a Pentium.

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  3. Re:Standard response to the "why bother" crowd. by danamania · · Score: 4, Interesting

    This has me thinking. Sometimes I do that =)

    But seriously. Anyone seen sites with info on overclocking ancient CPUs? I remember once seeing a 486 overclocked well over 100MHz, perhaps into the 200MHz range, through refrigerated cooling. To me, that's as interesting as getting 5GHz from a brand new CPU.

    Any 50MHz 68000s? A 300MHz Pentium I? 250MHz from a PPC601?

    A 50MHz Commodore 64, even? :)

  4. Tom's Hardware reaches 5.25 GHz by deja206 · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Now this is the ultimate cooling system... =)

    The last part of the video (the flower thing) is even scary!