Check out how the Culver City fire department came to our liquid nitrogen party!
Liquid nitrogen depletes oxygen from the air. So, we had to run oxygen depletion monitors at key points to assure that oxygen levels remained safe and no one passed out or died of suffocation.
When oxygen levels drop below 19%, it’s time to leave the area. Levels remained around 21% throughout the contest.
Handling liquid nitrogen can be hazardous to your health. However, experts like our contestants do it with confidence and virtually no injuries. Injuries? If you don’t know what you’re doing, you can get frost bite on you skin or eye damage when the stuff comes shooting out of a valve on the tank.
Team 411 Overkill Extreme Overclocking (Orange Tom’s Overdrive shirts) and Team OC Forums (Green shirts) relax a bit while Windows Vista loads on their PCs.
The stock MSI P45D3 Platinum motherboard used by contestants.
Our 160 liter liquid nitrogen containers each weighed around 400 pounds full and had to be handled with great care. The contents were stored at 22 psi and whenever we moved the tanks or placed them in a warmer environment, they made a spectacular hissing sound as the tanks vented enough to keep pressure at the 22 psi level.
An OC Forums team member grabs some liquid nitrogen.
This dewar (tank) of liquid nitrogen is stabilized at 22 psi.
Valve open and here comes the liquid nitrogen pouring into a thermos that helps retain some of that extreme coolness.
Chris Angelini, managing editor of Tom’s Hardware USA shows off his black staff tee shirt for the event.
