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MSI Wind U100, Overclocked With Liquid Nitrogen

Posted by timothy on from the it's-a-free-world-baby dept.

james writes "What do you get when you combine a MSI Wind U100 notebook with liquid nitrogen? The new Intel Atom frequency World Record ... and some damn cool pictures! A large copper pot is used, sitting on top of the GPU and chipset, and cold transfer through the original heatsink plate to the CPU. This was cooled down to about -20 C to achieve the new world mark. (Intel Atom N270 @ 2315mhz) For more information you can check out the original forum thread.

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  1. Bonus by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    +5 hack points for being completely impractical. I like...

  2. Man oh man... by T.E.D. · · Score: 4, Funny

    ...and you thought it was bad when your laptop's battery started leaking into your lap. Just wait until its liquid nitrogen cooling system starts leaking.

  3. The REALLY impressive thing... by KingSkippus · · Score: 4, Funny

    This was cooled down to about -20 to achieve the new world mark.

    The really impressive thing isn't that they overclocked a processor, it's that they cooled it to -20 K!

  4. Re:side-effects of mod cooling? by Eccles · · Score: 5, Funny

    I work for the Department of Redundancy Department.

    Which one?

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  5. ob. Futurama reference... by Tastecicles · · Score: 5, Funny

    first one, then t'other.

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