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A detailed guide on LN and dry ice CPU cooling insulation

by on16 March 2009

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Protect your components


We’ve come across an interesting guide that might turn out to be quite helpful for any enthusiast wannabes. In case regular air-cooling or slightly advanced water-cooling doesn’t satisfy your hunger, you can turn to some more extreme methods such as liquid nitrogen and dry ice CPU cooling.

However, such a feat is no walk in the park, and liquid nitrogen is not a thing to be introduced onto your motherboard just like that. If you're looking for some serious cooling, that will of course help if you're looking to do some extreme overclocking, you'll have to carefully isolate the motherboard making sure that this doesn't turn into a buy-a-new-motherboard trip to the computer shop. Temperatures that reach as low as -190 and even lower are not to be messed with just for fun, but they can really help you with overclocking and you could break or even go higher than 6GHz with a Phenom II X4.

Thankfully, legitreviews has come up with a detailed tutorial on how to protect your components while striving for those subzero temperatures, and it involves using modeling clay and packing tape, which should be simple enough provided you heed the advice.

You can find the tutorial here.

Last modified on 16 March 2009
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