Intel's Superchilled Test Rig 147
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.'"
In a galaxy far, far away (Score:4, Funny)
Nice (Score:0, Funny)
Correction (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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Re:-40C (Score:1, Funny)
then one might make the mistake of -40k
in Soviet Russia (Score:4, Funny)
environment cools Intel [bbc.co.uk].
Re:IS THAT IN CELCIUS OR AMERICAN? (Score:1, Funny)
40c
The c stands for COMMUNIST!
40f
The f stands for Fuck Yeah!
I'm buying real-estate on Pluto (Score:2, Funny)
it will be the happening place for gamers.
Re:Big advantage? (Score:1, Funny)
no a really big advantage would be putting the entire rig in a satalite sat in the earths shadow out in the void with a massive superconductor heat sink spreading the heat across 2 or 3 kilometers for really low temps and just beaming the results back via a micro wave trasmiter powerful enough to melt the icecaps... at least that how the borg would do it....
Getting colder... (Score:5, Funny)
For extra effect, they should put Debian 6.0 "Squeeze" there; also recently frozen.
Re:Correction (Score:4, Funny)
Mod parent Swoosh!
Screw yer Giga-hurts nonsense! (Score:3, Funny)
I am more interested a a FPU (food processing unit) than a CPU - how long to render Natalie Portman in hot grits?
Re:in Soviet Russia (Score:3, Funny)
Shame that it's no longer winter. [telegraph.co.uk]
Re:In a galaxy far, far away (Score:2, Funny)
I believe the politically correct term now is "presidentially-engineered".
Re:In a galaxy far, far away (Score:3, Funny)