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Intel's Superchilled Test Rig

Posted by timothy on from the now-that's-offsides dept.

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.'"

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  1. In a galaxy far, far away by PmanAce · · Score: 4, Funny

    Judging from that photo, we are still in the infancy of computing. The Millenium Falcon looks like that everywhere!

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    1. Re:In a galaxy far, far away by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

      I believe the politically correct term now is "presidentially-engineered".

    2. Re:In a galaxy far, far away by Curtman · · Score: 2, Funny

      -40 is superchilled? That's what we call "morning" from December through February here.

  2. Correction by Alsee · · Score: 5, Funny

    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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    1. Re:Correction by icebike · · Score: 3, Funny

      Mod parent Swoosh!

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  3. in Soviet Russia by FuckingNickName · · Score: 3, Funny

    environment cools Intel.

    1. Re:in Soviet Russia by Jeremy+Erwin · · Score: 2, Funny

      Shame that it's no longer winter.

  4. I'm buying real-estate on Pluto by Tablizer · · Score: 2, Funny

    it will be the happening place for gamers.

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  5. Getting colder... by sznupi · · Score: 5, Funny

    For extra effect, they should put Debian 6.0 "Squeeze" there; also recently frozen.

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  6. Screw yer Giga-hurts nonsense! by sherpajohn · · Score: 2, Funny

    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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