As many know, I do some tinkering with computers. While this isn’t my doings, I enjoyed it and thought you might too. Here’s the screencap of the CPU speed program, note the red underline.
I got a chuckle out of how this was achieved on a six core Intel Core i7 CPU. I suppose if you really need the speed, sure, why not? The video below explains it all. Be sure to wear gloves and a facemask if you try this at home.
They write on the Gigabyte blog:
Hey guys, here’s a quick shout out to everyone about another new feature we have with the X58A-OC board called OC Touch. It’s essentially a hardware level overclocking feature capable of adjusting the multiplier and bclock on the fly in or out of the operating system.
I’ve got a video here that hicookie made today to give you an idea how it works. He’s got the new Core i7 990X installed, LN2 pot running at -170C+, CPU boots at 6.4Ghz (178*36) and then gets clocked up using OC Touch bclock buttons to 7.1GHz (197*36). Easy!
Yes, that’s liquid nitrogen you see being poured into the CPU cooler.
BTW if you want the program, CPU-Z for your own use, it is free here.I find it useful since it saves me having to open up the case on the many machines I run at my business to figure out what is inside when we need to do some sort of fix or update.
http://www.cpuid.com/softwares/cpu-z.html
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Now maybe I can play Gothic 3 with out stuttering. Oops, I just let my inner geek out.
@DesertYote
Memory type I can’t say, but voltages and timings look to be stock for DDR3. QPI 1.2/1.5w/6,4.
Ok, I get it.
If the Earth goes into an Ice Age, it will spin quicker.
No more need for cooling fans on your computer.
Will that make my DOS system run faster? If so, I’m in.
It is stuff like this that makes one proud to be an engineer!
It reminded me of those folks who used liquid oxygen to light charcoal grills:
But will it fold?
f@h
ew-3 says: …
Core memory was on the way out when I got into computers, but ram had 9 bits and cost $2500 a megabyte.
William Mason says: …
That’s actually the red-anodized heat spreaders on the memory sticks. Got some like that.
Douglas DC says: …
LOL
JinOH says: …
DOS running at 3+ GHz would give you the answer before you asked the question.
I’ve had a look at it. What does it do (for the person who just whats to know what’s happening, rather than tweak) that’s different to Belarc Advisor? BTW – when I installed it, I specifically cleared the tick on the Ask menu bar, but got it anyway!
http://www.belarc.com/free_download.html
@ZT
“If only the MET office had this technology…”
Doh, but that is the MET office super liquid cooled weathery super duper computery all managed by the liquid coolant controllant intern from HadCRU (the gloveless safety conscious folks south of the border.)
well,
using liquid oxygen eliminates the problem of death by nitrogen suffocation. I’m not sure a no spark environment would prevent the bbq pit scenario though, lol.
Reminds me of the time in the 1980s one of my students and I went to Los Alamos because he needed the computing power of a Cray for his thesis. For fun they showed us a room with three Cray-2s, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cray-2, that were used for unclassified work. They used liquid cooling because of the close packing of the integrated circuits. You probably do better now with any old Intel chip and an nVidia card.
A paramedic a few years back told me about a nasty case involving liquid nitrogen. He was called out to a university lab one day. Apparently one of the medical students had been asked to remove a frozen sperm sample from storage. The student for some reason put his bare hand into the LN to remove the sample. Of course his hand was frozen instantly and had to be amputated.
I saw this yesterday, but just noticed it this morning. Take a look at the voltage he’s needing to run at to boot this thing. 1.888v? Stock is
VID Voltage Range
0.800V-1.375V
Yeah, definately a throw away processor once they’re done with it.
I’ve found my spiritual home. So I’ve found people that think this extreme overclocking is cool, that have seen the “exploding AMD” video, seen the mineral oil aquarium video, re-post the “starting charcoal with liquid oxygen” video. I’m in the right crowd.
As far as CPU-Z goes, very nice freeware but you can get most info you need with dxdiag.
ew-3 says:
May 3, 2011 at 4:44 pm
Showing my age, but I worked on a core memory design back in the day.
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I worked on equipment that used Bi-stable ferro-magnetic switching devises. One of the main rails (not for the “memory”) was over 1000 volts! I still have a little scar from the burn I got, getting too close to one of the power regulator tubes.
Boy some mornings I feel old 🙁
My son burned up a perfectly good desktop computer playing around with overclocking.
I’m happy that he is inquisitive, but he still had to shell out for his own replacement machine.
Overclocking causes heat which causes global warming so obviously we’re all going to burn in CPU hell. Or get a good framerate on Crysis 2.
Exotic cooling is nothing new though. One of my first introductions to big iron was chatting with the IBM plumber installing our new (I think) 3090 mainframe. Lots of chilled water needed to keep that beast cool. 128MB of central store, several million quid to buy and my graphics card probably outperforms it now. Also saw the Cray-2 with it’s Flourinet cooling, probably banned now for being unenvironmentally sound. Cray’s did have one advantage over PC’s though. You could sit on their coolers:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:EPFL_CRAY-I_4.jpg
although depending on installation, the data centre manager may want to shoot you for doing so.
LN played within an office cubicle? OSHA will be dropping by quite soon, methinks.
This is like trying to get a ’67 Chevy to go 700 MPH by strapping JATO bottles on the sides. If it’s correct that O2 condenses into the liquid N2, they might even have a chance of winning a Darwin Award themselves – hard to do with only a computer.
This reminds me of Project E.U.N.U.C.H..
That was more than 10 years ago and was probably a hoax anyway, but I still chuckle every time I hear of over-clocking.
As a company that uses N2 for purging things, I am aware that nitrogen hazards are significant. It is not like it leaves you gasping for breath; it has been described as a “punch in the face that knocks you unconscious”. Apparently you need CO2 to regulate your respiration. The lack of CO2 in nitrogen simply means that your respiration stops immediately; no warning, and you collapse. No gasping while you try to get out. There have been a lot of people killed due to nitrogen atmospheres, particularly entering vessels that are purged with it.
GaryP says:
May 3, 2011 at 5:45 pm
“One fun little fact about playing with liquid nitrogen. If air comes in contact with it, oxygen will condense into it as it has a higher boiling point. When the liquid has almost boiled off, the last little bit will be pure oxygen.”
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I don’t recall this being a major issue with LIN during my 6+ years as a cryo piping designer. For LH2, definitely, it’s a big deal. We used to sling stainless steel angle sections under the piping to collect any liquefied air and direct it to a safe disposal location.
Paul
Perhaps I should clarify: exposed sections of liquid hydrogen piping would be so cold as to liquefy the surrounding atmospheric air, causing the situation GaryP describes.
Aren’t you worried that the electrons running so quickly through the chip will contribute to global warming?