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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.

Mounting and First Boot

First Contact

After a bit of wiggling around we got the system working with an X800XT, the insulation for the container is only put on after the installation.

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Diving straight into the BIOS we luckily see low temperatures which means we have sufficient contact between the CPU<>Heat Spreader<>Container.

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We swapped out the X800XT for a low end TNT2 and after sliding the foam onto the container we are left with “one big FAT pipe”

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A top view of the full copper container reveals that it has a spiral design, which was originally thought out by Chilly1 from XtremeSystems. This particular container was custom made (of course) in a local DIY hardware store.

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The container is mounted and we’re ready to bring in the LN2

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