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How to Cool your PC with Dry Ice

A complete guide by on working with Dry Ice so you can reach sub zero temperatures with your CPU and graphics card. Details on building containers, where to buy Dry Ice and important tips and tricks.

Author	Jort
Editor	jmke
Date	2005-05-08
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	The goal of this article is to provide you with an extensive howto on cooling your PC with Dry Ice, including info on where to obtain it and how to build cooling-containers to mount on your CPU and/or GPU (graphics card). First a little bit of background information on Dry Ice: is frozen carbon dioxide has a surface temperature of -109F/-78.5C has the advantage of sublimation, as it turns directly from solid state to carbon dioxide gas, skipping the liquid phase. This is really good as you don’t need a bleeding valve! can be obtained in the form of pellets or big blocks which can be easily broken into smaller pieces with a hammer. Why use Dry Ice? For overclocking only, pure and simple. It is not usable for daily 24/7 cooling, it’s mostly used by those people who like to push their PC to a higher speed. By using subzero cooling you can obtain impressive overclocks. Dry Ice will provide you better performance than air- and water-cooling, as well as single stage phase change cooling setups. Due to its low cost and lower risk than LN2 it can be used easily in a wide variety of environments, cascaded phase change setups are more expensive and require a higher technical barrier as they are not available off-the-shelve. Where to get Dry Ice? Here in Belgium it's not that easy to get Dry ice, there are 2 places I know of, if you know places where they sell Dry Ice, be it in Europe or elsewhere, please do share them in our forums and I’ll update the list here. Belgium - ijsblokjes.be: A supplier which delivers Pellets at your doorstep. - Praxair: A large company located near Antwerp (Schoten), which sells Dry Ice in blocks. - Praxair Dep. KEMPEN / Nijverheidsstraat 4 / 2260 OEVEL / 014/25.06.03 USA / Canada - A complete list of resellers Dry Ice Obligatory Warning Before we proceed I would like to tell dry ice can be dangerous. The super-cold surface temperature can easily damage your skin if you touch it directly. For the same reason you never want to taste or swallow dry ice either. So wear hand gloves if you touch Dry Ice Another important concern with dry ice is ventilation. You want to make sure the area is well-ventilated. Carbon dioxide is heavier than air and it can concentrate in low areas or in enclosed spaces (like a car or a room where dry ice is sublimating). Normal air is 78% Nitrogen, 21% Oxygen and only 0.035% Carbon Dioxide. If the concentration of carbon dioxide in the air rises above 5%, carbon dioxide can become toxic. Be sure to ventilate any area that contains dry ice, and do not transport it in a closed vehicle. Now that you know a bit more about Dry Ice it’s time to get started -> \| Next ->>

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