Ice cooling - am I a genius?

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By keeping it a solid the ice can't take in heat as quickly, and it harder to move (that's why watercooling systems pump water round, to spread the heat).

What you could do is supercool the water by adding salt (making it colder than 0 degrees, but still liquid, but that effort to sustain that isn't worth it.

The idea of cooling is really to keep your components running at average temps whilst under strain. You can't really push a cpu to however many jiggahertz because other components will strain (so you'd need to have high quality ram, mobos and psus, and cool all of them). I think the most they got a P4 to was 6ghz, and that's with them drenching the thing in liquid nitrogen.

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But if the CPU operates at a lower temperature, it will become faster. Look at that processor that got frozen to absolute zero, and ran at 500Ghz.

This is what my friend came up with when I showed him my idea on Windows Live:

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Smart :cool:

You put your head between your legs, and cry, because you just ruined a perfectly good cooling system.

did u even read any of the replies?

and i dont understand what ur trying to do, just go buy the many cooling systems that are cheaper and more efficient than what ur trying to make, and the best part is you can buy them right now,

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riahc3

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I quote myself:

1. The idea is stupid.

2. You are the exact opposite of being a genius

Don't you think if this accually worked that other people wouldn't have done it? :rolleyes:

:no: Human inteligence as we know it keeps decreasing...

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Someone cooled a CPU down to absolute zero?

Physics weeps for you.

I wasn't too sure how that worked, as all particles are meant to stop moving at that temperature.

http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2006/06/20/ib...rclocking_feat/

Turns out it was 4.5 degrees above absolute zero. My bad :blush:

Human inteligence as we know it keeps decreasing...
I'm sorry, but I feel that steps over the line. I'm just throwing out a crazy idea here, and I'm now wiser about phase-change cooling and such. But to say that I am an example of the decline in human intelligence is just rude. You don't even know me.

For those wondering wether I am serious: I wasn't to start off with, but I'm beginning to think it might be something to try out. Or maybe a variation of it, based upon the proven systems.

And, no, I'm not 8, I'm 14 ;)

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I wasn't too sure how that worked, as all particles are meant to stop moving at that temperature.

http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2006/06/20/ib...rclocking_feat/

Turns out it was 4.5 degrees above absolute zero. My bad :blush:

I'm sorry, but I feel that steps over the line. I'm just throwing out a crazy idea here, and I'm now wiser about phase-change cooling and such. But to say that I am an example of the decline in human intelligence is just rude. You don't even know me.

For those wondering wether I am serious: I wasn't to start off with, but I'm beginning to think it might be something to try out. Or maybe a variation of it, based upon the proven systems.

And, no, I'm not 8, I'm 14 ;)

There's not a thing in that article that says the chip they cooled was a cpu. There's a huge difference between the power requirements of a cpu at that speed and the power requirements of some sort of communication chip at that speed. High speeds like that aren't all that unheard of, but it sure as hell isn't a CPU overclocked to 500GHz.

I believe you totally misinterpreted the article, and that's where you're at fault. (and in general believing that you can possibly get a cpu to 500GHz)

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OK Cool down!

To make your idea work you would spend more energy on keeping the ice as ice as you will spend on keeping the cpu cool using the stock fan. Don't forget that AMD and Intel have billions of dollars to throw at "efficient cooling" solutions.

What makes your idea so amazing? And does it even work?

Ice is only 0-C. I am sure you can get - degrees from most of the advanced cooling systems currently available.

I am sure in your life you will have a thousand "I have cracked it moments" and then all becomes clear again.

:)

Nobody has ever cooled anything down to absolute zero let alone a CPU.

Nearly http://news.com.com/Chip+breaks+speed+reco...ml?tag=nefd.top

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