Magic Smoke: The 5 GHz Project

For those that believe that cool isn't just a way of life, but a way to live, here's an article about an experiment to radically overclock a computer processor - using liquid nitrogen!

Reminds me of an experiment that a man named George Goble conducted many years ago in which he succeeded in melting a grill using LOX (Liquid Oxygen). (There is an excellent article on this at Ambrosia)

The 5GHz Project is also definitely a "don't do this at home" kind of thing. Then again, a true propeller head is not likely to listen to that advise. Anyone wanting to seriously do this needs to know exactly what they are about, know how to modify a motherboard, the consequences if things go bad, and an up-to-date will might be in order.

The whole article is full of good pictures that show, step by step, how they went about this little do. Some of the English is sometimes less than perfect, but much better than some college grads in America. On the bottom of page 6 it mentions "loss", but fails to mention what the loss is. In making guesses I'd say they are talking about loss of heat transference.

They have an excellent grasp of what they need to know in order to carry this out, and make plans accordingly. They give real world examples of power output (although in America we use 110 volts at 60 amps, but then we're weird).

In short: these guys have way too much fun.