CPU Cooling X-TREME!

[Graeme]

I'm not sure if anyone has seen this before, but I was damned impressed. This guy uses liquid nitrogen to cool his cpu so he can get a processor speed of 5.225 ghz, setting a new world record for fastest processor speed!

http://www20.tomshardware.com/images/thg_video_11_5ghz.zip

The video is 20 megs, but it's so cool!

/me goes out to illegally purchase some liquid nitrogen.
"Let's see if we can't get 6 ghz!"
/me snickers

[MacG]

So, is this affordable for a college student with a part time job? =X

[Staind]

No, liquid nitrogen is very expensive I think. And it has a boiling point of like 77.36 K. My teacher bought some and if you let the lid open on the cooler it would turn to gas quite quickly.

[henrywonderchimp]

i've heard of that stuff... sounds w00t-tastic :p

[WeekendLazyness]

Liquid nitrogen is just cold air. It's not really expensive, but obtaining it and storing it is troublesome. I've got to play with the stuff before, and let me tell you, it's an experiance worth remebering. The stuff is awsome! You pour it on a table top, it will boil and roll right off. It expands at an astounding rate, and if you put the stuff into a pipe and put a cork on right away, the cork will shoot across the room. There's a bunch of other stuff to do with it, like freeze rubber objects, and shatter them. It's fun.

[UndeadBastard]

I need one of those. :ninjal:

EDIT: Nevermind, I don't want my computer to look like that. :\

[OboeGuru]

Liquid nitrogen is just cold air. It's not really expensive, but obtaining it and storing it is troublesome. I've got to play with the stuff before, and let me tell you, it's an experiance worth remebering. The stuff is awsome! You pour it on a table top, it will boil and roll right off. It expands at an astounding rate, and if you put the stuff into a pipe and put a cork on right away, the cork will shoot across the room. There's a bunch of other stuff to do with it, like freeze rubber objects, and shatter them. It's fun.
Dude, you're on crack, it is NOT cold air! Yes nitrogen is a gas and is in our air to some degree, but it is not by any degree "cold air."

It IS really inexpensive though, you just have to get it through special supply chains that wouldn't normally allow the general public to get their hands on it.

I've heard that in days of old, college bio classes would freeze rats in liquid nitrogen and shatter them to explore the innards. :bug:

[Graeme]

I was going to say something about that cold air business :P, but then I didn't. Luckily, Oboe caught it for me :D.

That's so cool about freezing the rats though! I'd love to do something like that! Err, the rats were dead beforehand, right?

[Dark_Soul74]

Now if only that was standard on all computers....

[marsius]

Yep, liquid Nitrogen is just very cold Nitrogen, which, admittedly, makes up the majority of the air you breath. Do you have any idea how much energy it takes to cool Nitrogen down to that temperature, though? And based on that energy, can you think of the cost of producing it? Storing it would be difficult too! On the upside, however, it'd be pretty damn obvious if you had a coolant leak.

Liquid Nitrogen is dangerous, so I doubt any one of us could easily get ahold of it. It'd be fun, though :D

[OboeGuru]

I was going to say something about that cold air business :P, but then I didn't. Luckily, Oboe caught it for me :D.

That's so cool about freezing the rats though! I'd love to do something like that! Err, the rats were dead beforehand, right?
I don't believe they were.

Yep, liquid Nitrogen is just very cold Nitrogen, which, admittedly, makes up the majority of the air you breath. Do you have any idea how much energy it takes to cool Nitrogen down to that temperature, though? And based on that energy, can you think of the cost of producing it? Storing it would be difficult too! On the upside, however, it'd be pretty damn obvious if you had a coolant leak.

Liquid Nitrogen is dangerous, so I doubt any one of us could easily get ahold of it. It'd be fun, though
My AP Physics techers said that it was something in the region of maybe 10-20 bucks for like a 5-10 gallon tank (I forget how big it was, it was about the same size/volume as a typical teeneage torso).

[Graeme]

Hmmm, well, let's get crackin'! We'll make a WB science team, and freeze stuff, and blow stuff up, etc. etc.

[marsius]

I vote we start by grinding Al into a fine powder and mixing three parts ground Al with one part ground Ferrous Monoxide (parts determined by mass). We then could pour a small pile of this mixture on Dunchy's engine block, stick in a Mg strip and set the strip on fire. We'd then shut Duncy's hood and stand back to watch what happens.

Does anyone know what the mixture I just described was? Do you know what it would do?

[Graeme]

Hmm . . . I have no clue what experiment it is . . . but does something explode!?

Forgive my ignorance, but what is ground Al? Ground aluminum?

[OboeGuru]

Yes it would be grould aluminum.

Well, judging by the fact that we're adding burning magnesium to the system, I think it's not too unreasonable to assume that marsius' suggestion is some sort of combustion/exothermic reaction.

Especially considering that Ferrous monoxide is listed as being combustible at certain conditions...

[Eros]

I doubt that guy even uses those 5.225 ghz for anything special. He probably just did it for the bragging rights =P

[Graeme]

Hahaha Eros :tu:. You're probably right. Hell, if I had that many hertz, I'd be playing like . . . 5 games at once!

[TheGreatBrain]

Dude, you're on crack, it is NOT cold air! Yes nitrogen is a gas and is in our air to some degree
That some degree is 70%.
Hmmm, well, let's get crackin'! We'll make a WB science team, and freeze stuff, and blow stuff up, etc. etc.
Sounds scientasitic! :)

[Fenguin]

I vote we start by grinding Al into a fine powder and mixing three parts ground Al with one part ground Ferrous Monoxide (parts determined by mass). We then could pour a small pile of this mixture on Dunchy's engine block, stick in a Mg strip and set the strip on fire. We'd then shut Duncy's hood and stand back to watch what happens.

Does anyone know what the mixture I just described was? Do you know what it would do?
Thermite!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :D I wuv thermite!
What it would do is burn through the whole thing. Yum. :D

Have any of you actually seen thermite in action? I wish I could make some, since it's legal and all, but I don't have the time [yeah, I know, the stuff is easy to make, but meh. Maybe I'm just too scared.]

EDIT: Liquid nitrogen isn't very expensive, but the tanks used to store it are. A small dewar can be already a few hundred bucks; larger tanks would cost even more. Especially the ones you'd need if you want to run your computer for so long. :)
Also, LNO2 is considered a dangerous substance, so you'd have to declare it if you wanted to order it, and pay a dangerous substance shipping tax. :)

[Staind]

The reaction you're talking about is Iron (III) Oxide and Aluminum right? Our teacher did that in our Chemistry class, it was fun.

[marsius]

Thermite!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :D I wuv thermite!
What it would do is burn through the whole thing. Yum. :D

Have any of you actually seen thermite in action? I wish I could make some, since it's legal and all, but I don't have the time [yeah, I know, the stuff is easy to make, but meh. Maybe I'm just too scared.]

EDIT: Liquid nitrogen isn't very expensive, but the tanks used to store it are. A small dewar can be already a few hundred bucks; larger tanks would cost even more. Especially the ones you'd need if you want to run your computer for so long. :)
Also, LNO2 is considered a dangerous substance, so you'd have to declare it if you wanted to order it, and pay a dangerous substance shipping tax. :)
Yup yup yupparroo! We actually made it in my CHEM 221 class last year, though we ignited it with a glycerol reaction. Magnesium is a lot easier to use and you don't have to question whether or not it is reacting properly so you can just close the hood and watch with glee!

When we did it in class we actually had a few problems with explosive reactions. I think that the problem primarily arose from our use of the glycerol reaction as the ignitor. It was two liquids and I think that in the process of pouring them in some of the glycerol soaked through the powder and ignited too much of the interior at once.

The best part of making thermite in class, though, was that my professor had us bring in our own materials (a pop can and rust). I used an old metal file for mine. He (the professor) actually broke a rusted piece off of his son's old car's fender. It was gewd.
The reaction you're talking about is Iron (III) Oxide and Aluminum right? Our teacher did that in our Chemistry class, it was fun.That would be the one!

[SoldierPrime]

The Broken fried a laptop with thermite, to get rid of any traces of all that haxored data and stuff :)
When I was in chemistry my teacher had a laser disk (laff) which had a professor using liquid nitrogen, freezing a ball then throwing it against the wall etc.... He also did a bucnh of other crazy things with differnet gasses and such, even caught his room on fire, lol silly. Also had thermite experiments on there, we asked him why can't we do that and he went on about it being dangerous ect... Since my school is a shat hole they are trying to decided if they want chem 2 or not, I might take, might be more exciting then 1 which was crap, except some things.
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ld but unique:http://www.popsci.com/popsci/hometech/article/0,12543,458641,00.html

[Graeme]

Haha, it's funny, because I just alluded to that same TheBroken episode in an entirely different thread!

That was so funny! Ahhh, Ramzi, you kill me :).

[SoldierPrime]

In the bloopers,
Ramzi: aahhh spells like shit, someone call 911
Kevin:shutup ramzi.

To bad they only basically do things on camera, half the stuff they do has already been done and people know what to do. That and they need more episodes.

[Graeme]

Hahaha, using #2 I actually made something similar to their door buster :D. It's so classy!

I also tried wireless hacking myself, though it wasn't much of a challenge since I already knew my password :P.

[Duddits]

I also tried wireless hacking myself, though it wasn't much of a challenge since I already knew my password :P.
If Duddits wasn't so lazy as to change his siggie, he would quote this.

BTW, if you ever made thermite and light it, back the fuck up. That shit burns at over 5,000* F. It's so fun to play with though.