Nitrogen Immersion

[acemcmac]

It is my understanding that the main problem with cryogenic over clocking is the wear and tear placed on the parts by the journey to and from their extremely low operating temperatures.

My question is two parts:

Will having one gradual and permanent immersion remove the problem of wear and tear? I have seen industrial N2 cooling applications and I believe it to be permanently possible on a home computer assuming a regular N2 delivery schedule to be available?

Secondly, would the NB, Video and Proc cores in this 24/7, immersion be left bare or with passive heat sinks?

 

[Def]

The biggest problem I've seen from the few articles I've read is that caps and some CMOS chips don't seem to like the extremely cold temps. Not a problem if you're only cooling the processor like many hardcore Japanese OCers do, but you seem to be talking about total immersion.

Keep in mind that caps can and do rupture under extreme temps(hot and cold). I seem to recall someone bringing a poorly OCing Celeron 566 to almost 1.1-1.2Ghz(which was nuts at the time when "good ones" ran about 850-900Mhz and this one couldn't do that), but it had garbled text on the screen and put out a random character whenever the same button was pressed on the keyboard - most likely a CMOS chip on the MoBo I think he said.

LN2 will evaporate so quickly, I hope you have GALLONS upon GALLONS just to surf the internet for a while.

 

[acemcmac]

hadnt thought about the caps... good point...

in a closed environment designed for n2, you'll be amazed the cooling economy you can get.... 😉