
With just weeks to go to Christmas, the THG crew got together to offer our loyal readers and especially the hardcore geeks among us something really special. Our brainstorming session quickly lead to extreme overclocking. And so we began our highly complex project that required a whole lot of coordination and planning. The working title of our endeavor : The 5 GHz Project.
This is what our set-up for 5 GHz looks like : a compressor cools the chipset and liquid nitrogen cools the CPU.
Previous
Next
Summary
- Record Attempt: The 5 GHz Project
- Record Attempt: The 5 GHz Project, Continued
- Video 11 To Download: 5.25 GHz With A P4, Continued
- Cooling Head And Pipe: Purpose-built Copper Production
- Cooling Head And Pipe: Purpose-built Copper Production, Continued
- Cooling Head And Pipe: Purpose-built Copper Production, Continued
- Insulation To Counter Condensation Build-up
- 100 Amperes On The Switching Regulator: Modifications To The Asus P4C800-E
- Preconditioning: Dual Cooling Of Northbridge And CPU
- Northbridge Cooling: Vapochill Compressor
- Clock Rate Record With The P4: 5.25 GHz At -196°C
- Highspeed: FSB At 330 MHz, Memory At 285 MHz (DDR550)
- The Same Still Applies: Selective CPU Buying
Ask a Category Expert
Secondly, the over-use of thermal pastes ... from my understanding, application of thermal paste between a chip and a heatsink is supposed to be EXTREMELY THIN and evenly spread; any excess paste REDUCES thermal performance and just splotching it on can easily introduce air bubbles which would cause 'hot-spots' wherever a bubble lies.
If your going to draw attention to yourself by breaking some world records, it would be probably a good idea to do everything you can to make everything as perfect as can be ... for example, cleaning up the copper soldiering residues to 'good enough' levels isn't Good Enough!, go all the way and use scouring pads, polish and some attention to detail and people will respect you the more for your efforts and clean presentation. A key to success in life = Strive for excellence in whatever you do! Don't settle for second-best.
They did it and then took it apart and threw it in a box. Sorry it won't fit in a case and it wasn't shiny enough for you nitpickers.
Let me know how cool yours is when you get done.
If you're going to post garbage then don't post at all.