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Intel's Superchilled Test Rig
Barence writes "Last week, PC Pro issued a challenge to see whose PC could render a 3D graphics benchmark in the shortest time. The competition was won by an entrant with a rather unfair advantage: Intel. The processor giant's superchilled rig is overclocked to nearly 5GHz. As PC Pro explains: 'The rig itself uses phase-change cooling: in other words it's attached to a chuffing great freezer, which I believe is the big box on the right of the photo. That yellow meter with the readout is showing the temperature of its output: yes, that's minus 40 degrees Celcius.'"
Judging from that photo, we are still in the infancy of computing. The Millenium Falcon looks like that everywhere!
Tired of my customary (Score:1)
Great way to whip out the high enterprise penis Intel.
That yellow meter with the readout is showing the temperature of its output: yes, that's minus 40 degrees celcius.
Correction, it's minus 40 degrees fahrenheit.
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then one might make the mistake of -40k
environment cools Intel.
40c
The c stands for COMMUNIST!
40f
The f stands for Fuck Yeah!
it will be the happening place for gamers.
Table-ized A.I.
no a really big advantage would be putting the entire rig in a satalite sat in the earths shadow out in the void with a massive superconductor heat sink spreading the heat across 2 or 3 kilometers for really low temps and just beaming the results back via a micro wave trasmiter powerful enough to melt the icecaps... at least that how the borg would do it....
For extra effect, they should put Debian 6.0 "Squeeze" there; also recently frozen.
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I am more interested a a FPU (food processing unit) than a CPU - how long to render Natalie Portman in hot grits?
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