Chris has done it again with his substantial post, Vapor Phase Change Cooling. He built a vapor phase change cooling system, utilizing a mixture of propane and oil, that can bring his processor way below freezing providing for a perfect overclocking situation. Chris talks about what parts were involved, how it all went together and how it works. This post doesn’t talk about his overclocking ventures although I’m sure he’ll save that for another post. He was telling me how he got a cheap AMD64 Socket 939 2.0GHz chip up to somewhere around 2.85GHz stable and that was with minimal extra voltage. Hurry up and read his write-up before GaTech housing finds out he’s been playing with propane on campus.
Building something like this is reserved for those that are extremely good with their hands and not afraid to work with combustible materials with the possibility of killing their motherboard and processor. He’s been building this thing since last summer from personal experience and information he has learned from the professional’s at XtremeSystems.org. Now Chris can start working on a phase change cooler for my Mac Mini.
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And yes, that is a Calculus book holding up his computer.
I could use that. I’ve got a heatsink problem, and it’s been in the 90s with the AC not working. My computer’s going nuts
Chris, you made it on hackaday: http://pcs.hackaday.com/entry/1234000860073648/
Woah! I just woke up ~10 minutes ago, gave the compressor some time to drop temps, and I am told I’m on hackaday, this is going to be a good day. I am posting more results today from my bench run last night, I hit 3.0GHz at nearly stock volts, but it wasn’t windows stable, more tweaking incoming. Thanks posting about me Paul.
I am scared put that kind of stuff in my room. My life is more important to me than my machine. Selfish uh?
Well then you miss out on freezing your hand many times, watching the plume of burning propane when you vent, seeing -60* Celsius, and the best one, accidently ripping off the IHS from your processor because it was frozen to the evap. I trust this system more than I trust the bus driver that drives me to class on rainy days, when done properly these are very stable, just google “Vapochill”.
so i have a pentium 4 2.8ghz ibm netvista 250 20 gb havent got around to adding anything got it brand new 120$ don’t want it to blow up just with stock air what can i overclock it to
I highly doubt your ibm has overclocking abilities, not so much that it would burn up or anything, but the bios dosen’t have the overclocking software in it.