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How to Cool Your PC with Dry Ice
Ant writes "This Madshrimps article is a complete guide to working with dry ice so you can reach sub-zero temperatures with your CPU and graphics card. Details on building containers, where to buy dry ice and important tips and tricks. (Seen on Blue's News.)"
...what would happen if these class of people would be better off putting this kind of effort into getting laid
"When life gives you lemons, don't make lemonade. Make life take the lemons back!" -- Cave Johnson
Cheesy disco effect MP3 Box - dry ice and some pink neon - now you're talkin'
I'll wager 400 quatloos on the newcomer
Why?
And you call yourself a nerd...
Unfortunately, I am not Wil Wheaton
WOW....I just increased my processor from 2.2ghz to 2.3ghz.
Unless you've a tale to tell about the time you tried to overclock your cat with dry ice, this thread isn't the place for your post.
BTW, the thing about cats is that they have dignity. Dogs do not. You can tell from this simnple thought experiment:
Kick a dog, and kick a cat. The dog will come back for more; the cat will rip your curtains to shreds, then leave, never to return. Now tell me, which is the superior animal?
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I know, the adage is that geeks do it, "because they can."
But geeks (new geeks, high school age, not those hard core, old school, i-remember-the-altair types) I think are also inherently lazy and with summer coming, they also sleep late (because they can). Imagine sleeping through your computer's feeding time to find your GPU in a puddle at the bottom of the case.
Dry ice isn't made from water! That's why it's dry ;)
Why not just refrigerate the case instead? You can overclock your 3 ghz machine to 3.04 ghz and keep your brewskis cold at the same time!
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Hot air?
I don't read your sig, why do you read mine?
vegetable oil
Sure. If your freezer goes to 11.
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At least you don't have to get the stuff from Lybian terrorists. Great Scott!
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Obviously the one that didn't ruin your shit.
Death from incorrectly transporting/storing dry ice and having it slowly suffocate them while they sit for hours playing some silly video game.
The best part is the fog that will come out of your computer... it'll look real cool with all your blue lights shining through it, and *yawn* why am I getting so sleepy?
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Dry Ice is not that dangerous if you usea little bit of common sense. Heck, the local supermarkets around here in Florida carry it. The average Floridian is an idiot so if they can handle dry ice, so can't most anyone.
Just a Tuna in the Sea of Life
Wouldn't it be a lot cheaper and easier to just use a processor that doesn't get so friggin' hot? Like a PowerPC or Crusoe...
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Not really. An overclocked Crusoe would still be slow as shit. And as for the PowerPC, I can just imagine the scenario
Ricer1: Yay! The Liquid Nitrogen cooler has got my G5 down to -180C! Time to start cranking up the multiplier!
Ricer2: Apple haven't provided a way to increase the multiplier.
Ricer1: Well never mind, just crank up the bus speed!
Ricer2: Apple haven't provided a way to increase the bus speed.
Ricer1: Shit. The condensation's just nuked my CPU. Oh well, better order another one.
Ricer2: Apple won't let you order a new CPU.
Yes, I can see that catching on in a hurry.
And I thought the phrase "I fried my CPU" was figurative.
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... like How to Cool your PC with Bose-Einstein Condensate just so we finally get to the ultimate extreme end of things and never have to see another stupid cooling story again?
Can we just get a category for "cases and cooling"? Crust almighty...
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Why don't you just make ten colder and make ten be the top... number... and make that a little colder?
Plus they're easier to overclock with dry ice.
What isn't dry ice good for? -Creating a skating rink in your dorm. -Cutting coins for the coffee machine. -Cooling a laser capable of popping a houseful of popcorn from miles away. Now you can add cooling your computer to that list!
environmental chilling... fire the PC into space, then use a very long KVM cable-set. What's even radder is that the KVM doubles as a space elevator!
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