Chip cooler launches liquid nitro at CPUs
New frontiers in frigidity
A US company that specializes in CPU-cooling systems has just released its latest weapon in the war against melty microprocessors: liquid nitrogen.
Auburn, Washington-based Koolance offers a broad range of CPU coolers, but none that will make a serious overclocker's heart skip a beat more than the CPU-LN2 Liquid Nitrogen Evaporator.
Prepare your CPU for global warming
The $144.99 system's acetal evaporator pot is coupled to a nickel-plated solid-copper cold plate that will suck heat off your CPU faster than anything short of the X-Men's Iceman. Just fill up the pot with some liquid nitrogen (around −195 °C or −320 °F), and you're good to go.
According to Koolance, the included bracket supports the following processor sockets:
- AMD AM2, AM2+, AM3, and 939/940/754 processors (64, Opteron, X2, FX, Sempron)
- Intel LGA 1366 (Core i7)
- Intel LGA 775 (Quad, Core 2 Duo, Core Duo, Extreme, Pentium)
- Intel 478 (Pentium 4, D, EE, M, Celeron)
- Intel Xeon (603, 604, LGA771)
Liquid nitrogen sold separately. ®
COMMENTS
Pah!
Why use nitrogen? Just get your frigid partner to sit on the motherboad.
So in summary..
.. Liquid nitrogen offers questionable benefits over other methods, is aimed at over-clockers and not the majority of pc owners, is only dangerous if used by non-experts (majority of the worlds population) - hmm...
I'm guessing its not the best idea ever!
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The reason they stick Liquid nitrogen on CPU's isn't to remove the heat per sae, it's to remove the resistance.
Basically NO electrical resistance =sort of super conducting silicon = extremely high CPU cycles.
Hence (I think stupid) over clockers like to see how FAST they can push a chip before it goes bang or they create a new record or something.
e.g. DX 486 works at petaflop speeds for 9 seconds etc.
how often
Well the dewar on my microscope looked about the same size and in a room temp (approx 20C) lab I had too fill it twice in an 8 hour work day (although had plenty left at end of day). I would say allowing for expansion and loss during filling it used about 0.5 litre per filling (less in the afternoon if it was still cool). However this was to cool a CCD so was not really generating as much heat as a processor would.
Where to buy?
I have a gaming rig that despite owning the Antec 900 case my CPU really gets hot and would like to buy one ASAP!
I just wonder how often must I refill the thing and where to buy liquid nitrogen?!?!?!?!
