Nitrogen Cooling? How does it work?

[sarit16]

howdi all, thanx again by the way,

i recently heard that u can make your pc run faster thru nitrogen cooling how does this work?

any idea?

cheers

sksk

[doctorgonzo]

If you overclock your processor, you will generate heat. That puts an upper limit on how high you can OC. However, using something to cool the process, like liquid Nitrogen, will reduce heat and allow for higher speeds. This technique is pretty worthless as a viable method of overclocking. It's expensive, a pain, and most people dont' have liquid nitrogen lying around. Sure, people have done it, but mainly to say that they did.

[DrZaius]

Hi sksk,

Nitrogen cooling is for extreme overclocking, it's complicated, and is not very practically at all. If you want to overclock your processor just get a big heatsink and a good fan (Alpha PAL heatsinks come to mind), or if you want to be more "hardcore", look into watercooling. Check out the PC Mech guide to overclocking, and this page for more info: http://www.overclockers.com

[HAL9000]

Not to mention, liquid nitrogen can be dangerous, we're talking almost as cold as a Canadian winter

[>:() - Tiki Man]

Well many shared their opinions on nitrogen cooling, but failed to actually say what it is; Liquid Nitrogen cooling uses the extremely low boiling/melting point of Nitrogen (−196 °C/−321 °F) to effectivley cool a processor/gpu. The common method for doing this is by plopping a hunk of copper ontop of said computer part, then attaching long insulated pipe ontop of that (vertically), then constantly pouring liquid nitrogen into the pipe. With this method the said computer part will reach subzero temps, but the liquid nitrogen will also boil off fairly quickly. To protect against condensation damage, the cpu/gpu area has to be insulated also. And NO, liquid nitrogen is not terribly expensive (its actually quite cheap), but the canisters that transport it are terribly expensive.

[Alaron]

Tiki Man, this thread was from 2002.