More Cooling/Overclocking Fun

heretic writes "Here's another construction article on cooling components down to -40. While not quite as insane as the mineral oil solution (heh), it's still quite extreme. For only $600, it's pretty neat that he can nearly double his processor speed. I guess these sorts of techniques will remain viable until we have massive N-way SMP. "

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[austad]

Everyone seems to be criticizing this guy and telling him to just go buy some Alpha's or something faster in the first place instead of spending so much time trying to make it work.

It's called a hobby. Even though he uses the machine for his job, I'm sure overclocking is sort of a hobby to him, just like it is to many others. People spend lots of time and money doing things they don't need to do because it is fun and helps them learn.