Pick Your Proc

**hoom** · 02-11-2006, 01:49

You should see if you can bump that up by 4mhz if you can

**Just A Girl** · 02-11-2006, 03:19

Prescots can easily be over clocked.
But the suckers run hot as it is.
So unless im going to fork out £200 on liquid cooling systems, Il stay with 2.8ghz as aposed to 3.2ghz Which is indeed Easily possible.
But IMHO only some 1 who was very poorly educated about processors and there cooling. would bother to crank up a 2.8 gig Prescott without 1st improoving the cooling Imensly.

**Lemur** · 02-11-2006, 03:41

Here's some maniacs who pumped a Prescott up to 4.8 ghz on aircooling. Check out the pic. Admittedly, there are something like five 120mm fans to make that happen, but still, it's cool.

**Xiahou** · 02-11-2006, 05:09

Originally Posted by Lemur

Here's some maniacs who pumped a Prescott up to 4.8 ghz on aircooling. Check out the pic. Admittedly, there are something like five 120mm fans to make that happen, but still, it's cool.

Oh I doubt it's cool at all- you could probably fry an egg on it.

**Just A Girl** · 02-11-2006, 12:20

If your going to cool somethig down.
Do it properly.

That makes me want to go and spend £200-£400 On Liquid cooling,
but then again..
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You could Just go Absolutley Mental...
(i dont have a clue whats in this tank. I can guarantee its Not urine As That has a high sodium concentration Which makes it more conductive than water, And i wouldnt be using water my self either)

Thats What im talking about.
Keep Those suckers COOL!

(I belive that the lquid in the tank Is conductive, But as the majoraty of the PSU, Is outside of the water, Its converted the power in to 12v-5v Already.
And as we all know. (or atleast should know if we payed any attention in classes when we were in school)
12v circuitry Dosent tend to burn out when imersed in water. (Dosent TEND to.. Not Dosent ever)
"This is becous of water being a Relitivly poor conductor of electricity, And that 12v is a pitiful amount of power"

But i would not advize you go throwing 12v items in to the bath and see how long they last :)
Neither would i advise. You copy the above picture. And throw your mother board in to a fish tank full of Beer.

Just trying to speculate as to how it actualy works.
and any way.
if what im saying is right. One failure in the AT/ATX Psu. Could pump the tank full of 240v and fry everything in there.
And i wouldnt like to be around when that happend.

**Uesugi Kenshin** · 02-11-2006, 15:15

I've heard of cases like that, I don't remember what the liquid is though.

One of those would be nice, I could re-overclock! Plus you might still be able to get your parts back after a short if the warranties are really good....And you don't mention that you immersed everything and then plugged it in.

**C-F** · 02-11-2006, 15:19

lol, interesting idea for a modern day aquarium...

**CBR** · 02-11-2006, 15:26

Think its mineral oil they used.

CBR

**Uesugi Kenshin** · 02-11-2006, 19:08

That's right. I was thinking mineral water, but knew that made no sense. Thanks for reminding me CBR.

**drone** · 02-11-2006, 20:58

Mineral oil has been used for this before, I think some other oils also work. From what I've read, they work fine, but swapping out parts is a hassle because the oil is tough to get off of contacts.

Distilled water theoritically works. But it will quickly ionize, which will kill your system.

A friend of mine bought the first 1GHz system back in the day. I think the company's name was Cryotech. It had an overclocked Pentium that was encased in a chiller. The case weighed a ton, and sucked up a lot of power, because it contained a small fridge compressor. It took the CPU enclosure down to -40F before it would power on. More of a novelty item than anything else, since it didn't take long for the aircooled systems to catch up.