Liquid nitrogen.. would this work?

[nick_black]

I was just thinking.. instead of just pouring LN onto your cpu.. would it be more effective to pour the LN on and then attach it to a vacuum, forcing it to evaporate faster, and thus more cooling?

[LarkStarr]

I think there's a point where adding more cooling capability would be pointless anyways.

[Polygon]

Originally Posted by LarkStarr

I think there's a point where adding more cooling capability would be pointless anyways.

probably.

Why would you need liquid nitrogen? Trying to beat the world record 3d mark score?

[LarkStarr]

because it's cool!

hahahahhaha double entendre!!!

[nick_black]

LarkStarr: try telling that to an extreme overclocker :p i bet if they could go int the negative kelvin they would :p

nickpolyz: no me per-say, but yes, that would basically be the reason :) (that and CPU-Z scores, and any other benchmark)

LarkStarr: damn straight! hehe

[3oh6]

Originally Posted by nick_black

LarkStarr: try telling that to an extreme overclocker :p i bet if they could go int the negative kelvin they would :p

that completely depends on the chip and LarkStarr is right, for the most part, chips only operate in a range that doesn't tax LN2. Phenom II's can benefit from below -196C, and i'm not eve sure all of them can either as you run into cold board issues.

some Clarkbars have shown they can run below what LN2 can give them but only with low QPI, 90% of Bloomfield definitely can't -140C let alone colder, and Gulftown has shown no ability to max out LN2 before cold bug.

we are in a CPU age of temp control more so than all out lower temps...coming from an Intel bencher that is. AMD benchers might speak differently...but they are still slower anyway so who wants to listen to them ...yeah, i said it, what?

[nick_black]

3oh6: wow, thanks! that's a lot of info ^.^ thanks for writing that up :)
and I see no problem with your last statement :p

[dragoonxx]

3oh6 are you trying to egg CM on? doesn't he still hold the HWC record for fastest pi score?

[nick_black]

Originally Posted by dragoonxx

3oh6 are you trying to egg CM on? doesn't he still hold the HWC record for fastest pi score?

please excuse me for talking about something I don't know too much about, but last i checked recently all the pi records are currently held by the i7 core. unless I've mistaken something >.>

[dragoonxx]

the MP systems seem to be MIA from the lists, seems the current list is single socket only