The CPU overclocking maniacs used liquid nitrogen to cool down the Intel processor. In liquid form, nitrogen boils at -196 Celsius. The canister used to cool the processor was set on top of the CPU, instead of a standard cooling system.
Looks like overclocking is the mood of the season. If we had the AOCC in Hong Kong recently, half the world away in France, a group of 13 hard core overclockers have managed to overclock a Intel Core 2 Quad 6600 2.4GHz processor to an outrageous 5.1 GHz! They were a part of the hardware review site Tom’s Hardware.
These maniacs used liquid nitrogen to cool down the Intel processor. In liquid form, nitrogen boils at -196 Celsius. The canister used to cool the processor was set on top of the CPU, instead of a standard cooling system. A DFI DK-P35 motherboard was used and was covered with foam to prevent it from being damaged due to condensation. The configuration had 1GB DIMM of DDR2 memory and a Geforce 8800 GTS 512MB graphics card. The team disabled two of the four cores of the processor and managed to stabilize its temperature at around -125 Celsius by pouring liquid nitrogen.
“So we hate to break it to the good guys at Tom’s Hardware, but while we’re impressed that they managed to overclock a 2.4GHz Intel Core 2 Quad 6600 to 5.1GHz using a cryogenic cooling system, it’s not nearly close to the world record they’re claiming — we’ve seen P4’s at up to 8.18GHz, and just a couple months ago someone jacked a Core 2 Extreme QX9775 on a Skulltrail board to 6GHz. Still, it’s always fun to watch people pour LNO2 over a mobo — video after the break.”