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Intel Dothan 780 Overclocking with Liquid Nitrogen (LN2)

Overclocking/Overclocking Tests by Jort @ 2006-04-06

At -190?C you might be surprised how high you can overclock a CPU, with a few liters of Liquid Nitrogen to spare we poured it over a Pentium M 780 to see how high it would soar. Of course we don?t want to destroy our hardware so we?ll show you how to prevent condensation to save your hardware from failure.

Come together

It’s like Lego, but more costly

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Some high quality white goop is spread out over the shiny surface of the processor

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And the heat spreader gets the same treatment

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Zalman’s mounting gear for S478 comes in handy for our test

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We cut out a ring of Armaflex for insulation which will be squeezed between the motherboard and the mounting plate;

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Then to fully insulate the container a second layer of 1.5cm tick Armaflex is installed

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Now it’s time to put the container on the motherboard and power up system ->

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