Changing phases

[pseudolobster]

Check out what I found in the junk bin at work!

It's too bad it only takes S478, but it's damn impressive nonetheless.

I'm currently running a P4 2.8ghz at 3.6ghz with no problems at all.. It's completely stable, and it's running at -28 celsius. Yes, that's right. Negative twenty eight degrees celsius under full load.

 

[Lacrosse]

what was this used for? where do you work?

Hopefully they wiped the memory. remember back in the day i had a sludge hammer and would smash my old comps up cause of my parents information they didint want people to get.

 

[pseudolobster]

It's a phase-change CPU cooler, it's used for cooling processors below freezing. It works on the same principle as a refrigerator.

I work at a computer store, we always wipe customer's hard drives with DBAN before putting them in the scrap pile, so none of their personal information is readable. No need to smash with a sledge hammer, especially not the whole computer. Information is only stored on the hard drive, and once it's been written over a couple times with random data, no information is recoverable.

 

[ElektroFreak]

That's a sweet find, pseudo..

We also use DBAN...... or a drill press when we're bored.

 

[Gryphon]

WOW! At first i thought it was a refrigerator

 

[mfo]

That's awesome. I wish I had something like that for my rig.

 

[zaery]

How much electricity does it devour? -28 degrees celsius is insane!

 

[pseudolobster]

Playing around with an old 2.8ghz northwood p4, I've got it up to 4ghz stable now... I get the feeling if I was using a prescott core 3ghz I could probably get it close to 5ghz... The northwoods were never really the greatest overclockers.

 

[Benm]

WOW! At first i thought it was a refrigerator

Hehe.. it is.. you might as well shove your whole pc in the freezer.

Then again i suppose its more practical that keeping to throw liquid nitrogen on your cpu, though only slightly ;p