Dry Ice Overclocking without a pot?

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I want to try dice overclocking but don't have a pot. Is a pot totally necessary, does the CO'2 damage components? Or can I safely put a few smallish pieces inside the case without damage? I will have good ventilation. I know it will probably not be as effective but that is okay with me. Thanks you in advance for any knowledge.
 
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Yeah, I wasn't going to have it touching any components, just resting on case metal or wherever else.
 
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Putting it inside the case laying around won't do anything really. I don't get what that would even do. You need to coat your socket pins with grease to prevent the heating of them, use a liquid inside of a container on top of your chip in which the dry ice goes, etc. Putting some dry ice in your case will make it look smokey like it's on fire but that's about it. It will do nothing to help with overclocking anything.
 
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Don't put dry ice in your case without protection. The dry ice will condense water from the air and will ruin your components. Don't do dry ice or liquid N2 cooling without serious research.
 
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I was going to take off the top of the computer permanently, possibly outside to prevent condensation(and put saran wrap on components). I was going to use a LOT, all around the bare places of the cage. I realize this would only last a little while and provide a small bit of cooling but this is all I want. Is that safe?
 
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Using a lot of saran wrap would cause insulation. That coupled with the fact that you will have no direct contact between the dry ice and your hot components means that this would probably be a waste of your time (and could heat up your system if you use a lot of saran wrap). Anytime you mess with components, no matter how simple, you run the risk of breaking things (physical damage, static shock, etc.). This cooling hack provides almost no benefit.

 
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Throwing dry ice at the bottom of your case will have practically little benefit to cooling, you might lower case ambient temp by a degree or two but that would be about it.
The proper way to use dry ice to cool something (typically the CPU) is to have it cool water, which is then applied to the CPU in some fashion. That will give you lower temps, though is limited to your supply of dry ice and willingness to put more in (Cant imagine many people want to interrupt their gaming to shovel more ice into the computer every 10 minutes).

Cooling solutions like Dry Ice, LN2 and Liquid Helium are only temporary, they arent viable long term. Hence why they are only used to achieve extreme overclocks.
 
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