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Ultimate Cooling System
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."
should have started!
Write it out 100 times, on my desk in the morning.
Did someone say anything about a Beowulf cluster yet? Anyway... the point the guy made a few posts up about running Doom 3 at 3 fps has me wondering. Will Doom 3 really perform THAT badly? 3 fps? Was that a typo??? Surely you meant 30 fps. Which brings me to another point. Humans can't perceive any difference in fps once you get beyond 30 fps. So all this 500 fps crap is so much useless bullshit. Learn something abuot the way film works and you'll understand why tv is less than 30 fps and movies are 24 fps.
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Saying that people can perceive more than 30 fps is like saying that people can hear beyond 20 kHz. Sure, you have the occasional freak who MIGHT be able to perceive it, but for the most part it's just people who *think* they can perceive it. People who claim they can tell the difference are either, a.) freaks of nature, b.) lying to themselves or c.) just want to pull off some kind of macho attitude about how keen their senses are. In general, the level of arrogance from those types is very much like the level of arrogance you get from an audiophile who claims he can tell the difference in the way something sounds if there are green dots on the wall. I can't stand audiophooles who think they have superhuman ears and the same goes for the gamer who obesseses over useless high fps ratings. To both group, I say, get a life.
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I live in a central heated flat in a tempered country (apparently not part of "the real world" according to you) with no need for air conditioning. The abbreviation "HVAC" doesn't exist in my language, and I presume lots of other non-natively (US-)English speaking readers didn't know what it meant.
:P
Anything else you were wondering about? How to find the right listing in the Swedish yellow pages, for example?
Thanks for the "HVAC" explanation, BTW.