I just found an old video of Tom’s Hardware Guide where a Pentium 4 was over clocked to 5225MHz using some liquid nitrogen in super cooling the processor. I still remember a trivia question I heard some number of years ago on TechTV, where the question was, if you want to increase the processor speed by 20%, you can by putting the temperature -20oC below 0oC.
Loading...Tom’s Hardware Guide was always my personal reference before when I used to own and operate a computer shop in 1996 to 1998, buying computer parts and selling computers. Just exactly what Michael Dell did when he started out Dell Computers. The only difference is he is consistently in the top 20 riches people in the world. While I am nowhere and is very very far from that list.
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February 18th, 2006 at 7:51 pm
Does this mean that the only reason that prevents processors from performing at ultra-high speed is temperature? Meaning, a processor can run at twice the speed (+100%) if you cool it down to -100oC below 0?
February 19th, 2006 at 12:01 am
Something totally not practical to do, but just for academic exercise, that is an interesting question. What if you make the temperature -200oC?
February 19th, 2006 at 10:36 am
Whoa!!!! Still it is cool! Now imagine playing high-end games at that speed!
Mike Lopez
February 19th, 2006 at 10:31 pm
Yeah sure, but cooking oil is cheaper!
Check out this setup
February 20th, 2006 at 7:13 pm
That was cool Vanessa… I will update the blog and post that setup too.
Thanks to Tom’s Hardware Guide.
February 26th, 2006 at 7:56 am
I posted the Cooking Oil PC here.