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5 GHz Project: CPU Cooling With Liquid Nitrogen : Record Attempt: The 5 GHz Project
12:03 PM - December 30, 2003 by
Frank Völkel
Source: Tom's Hardware US – Keywords: 5, ghz, project
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Record Attempt: The 5 GHz Project

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.
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jayh619
05/16/2008
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So would u have to cool it constantly? or.. wat?
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05/16/2008
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If they stopped cooling it the processor would die.
jacn1
07/25/2008
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Now, with that big of a heatsink how do you plan to close the tower? How do you plan to renew the liquid nitrogen without blowing up your PC