Pushing P4 to 5.25GHz with Liquid Nitrogen

SkywalkerOS8 writes "The folks at Tom's Hardware have an article up about their attempt to overclock a Pentium 4 over 5 GHz using liquid nitrogen as cooling. A DivX video is available along with pictures of the custom copper cooling head they made."

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[niko9]

I think they should have splashed some nitrogen on some of those flash ads. Gives me a headcahe just looking at the main page.

Also makes my Thinkpad screech to a crawl.

what they should have used the LN for...

[Kewjoe]

they should have pored it on good ol' Tom and then put a hammer to him to see if he'd break into little pieces.

relax im kidding.

And it still won't run Doom3

[MikeCapone]

Oh well, I bet it'll get really good time in Seti.

In other news...

[ackthpt]

P4 to 5.25GHz with Liquid Nitrogen.

In other news...

A rose achieved 3.7GHz and a segment of rubber hose was clocked to 7.5GHz. A red rubber ball, however was unable to surpass 300 MHz befor shattering.

5+ GHz

[bmiller949]

The question is, how fast did it play solitaire once Windoze was booted?

Re:Eschew Obfuscation

[Anonymous Coward]

Liquid Nitrogen? Compressors? Huge heatsinks? Wouldn't it have been cheaper just to beowulf cluster a few systems together?

I think that's the topic of an upcoming story, be patient.

Warts too?

[kevcol]

I have an Athlon that seems to be growing warts. Will this take care of that as well?

Custom what?

[Wireless Joe]

Custom copper cooling head? That's a bong if I've ever seen one.

Re:And then you'll do what with it?

[dreadlocks]

They must have received an early beta of the new MS OS. They need more horsepower.

DON'T DROP IT!!!!

[downix]

I can imagine it now, one careless motion and SMASH your CPU is in itty bitty pieces.

Re:Ads

[theMerovingian]

Mozilla: Liquid nitrogen for flash adds

First post!

[-kertrats-]

FP!
hmm, maybe i should get one of these. My processor is kinda slow...

It's all giggles until someone loses consciousness

[Anonymous Coward]

"Wild" Bill Zollar, my Chem 140 professor told us the story about how ever couple or four years he'd do a liquid nitrogen demonstration. The common freeze it break it variety, which he personally didn't find exciting enough to suit his tastes. So he'd don two latex gloves having filled up the thumb of one with ground beef. He would then dunk the thumb of ground round into the liquid nitrogen while he was talking and then take it out and hit it with a hammer. Appearently, the last year he did it, a chuck of his flash frozen fake finger hit a girl in the head, causing her to pass out! Which in turn got HIM sent to the dean's office, and why he couldn't do it for us, and hasn't done it since.

Or so the story went (as I recall).

is it me

[segment]

But does "Tom's Hardware" sound like a gay porn site name

Letter from the Editor

[dsanfte]

Dear Slashdot Reader:

Thank you for pointing out to us the dangers of condensation. We have taken steps to address this problem.

Instead of simply dehumidifying the air, in true Tom's Hardware Style(tm), our next overclocking attempt will take place in the vacuumn of space.

Sincerely,
Tom's Hardware

Three Observations (Serious and Otherwise)

[Nova Express]

1. Now this P4 is so fast that you can get a Windows Blue Screen of Death within seconds of booting it up!
2. Watch it still lose to a Dual G5 in Photoshop bakeoffs.
3. Check out this line from Page 11: " At this clock rate, however, benchmark tests were no longer possible." In other words, this overclocked beauty doesn't actually work at that speed! If it's too unstable to use for real software, it hardly counts as a real innovation.

Re:Nothing better to do?

[Anonymous Coward]

Yeah, they could spend their time on more productive pursuits, like porting linux to their toasters...

Re:Like trying to overclock a VW

[Zork the Almighty]

Why oh why are so many geeks so friggin mechanically DUMB?

This is a pretty interesting question. I would wager that the geeks of old, having no computers invested their time learning about machines. But with no internet to speak of, how could they amass their collections of pornography ? I've heard that in the old days, pornography was distributed in something similar to a cheap book. You could appearently buy it at a place called "the corner store". I searched google for hours, but I couldn't find anymore information. I would assume that the store is located on some sort of corner, but the corner of what - I wonder.

Brainstorming

[michaelmalak]

From the THG story [tomshardware.com]:

With just weeks to go to Christmas, the THG crew got together to offer our loyal readers and especially the hardcore geeks among us something really special. Our brainstorming session quickly lead to extreme overclocking.

Oh the creativity -- it's blinding! A computer hardware website investigating overclocking!

Re:Three Observations (Serious and Otherwise)

[Anonymous Coward]

Fear not, fellow Apple fanboy. Noone is out to own your G5 with this overclocked monster. We already do that with current retail CPUs.

Re:what they should have used the LN for...

[duffhuff]

That might work, but I bet he'll just reform again once the shards melt again. The only way to dispose of the Tom-1000 is to drop him into molten lava, preferably at a steel plant in California.

Re:5+ GHz

[ameoba]

3" + 5GHz = 8"

Re:Another processor overclock? Bah.

[6ULDV8]

I overclocked for two years on Ritalin.

NERD ALERT!!!

[swordgeek]

Hmm. Safety gloves? Protective glasses?

You can definitely tell that these are computer geeks, and not chemistry geeks. Liquid nitrogen is remarkably safe stuff to play with, unless you're deeply stupid about it.

Re:Eschew Obfuscation

[Sivaram_Velauthapill]

Why do people soup up their Honda Civic with mods instead of buying a better car?

Why do people buy Acura with leather seats and high-end mods instead of buying a better BMW for the same price?

Why do people install super cool alarm systems in their cars when you can buy cheaper insurance to cover the same thing?

If you don't know the answer, you never will ;)

Sivaram Velauthapillai

Re:Like trying to overclock a VW

[Anonymous Coward]

and mostly that the cops don't appreciate me going 328mph through the school zone.

Yeah, but let's see them try to stop you.