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    [serious] Just learnt a lesson.

    As you may or may not know i own an Intel Celeron D 335 Processor, overclocked to 3.5Ghz. And to cool it, i use a Zalman superflower fan.
    Well, i decided to play around with the fan controller, and run some CPU intensive programs.

    My CPU intensive program is called United Devices, cancer reasearch program, etc. It basically uses all the spare processing cycles to do its work.

    I turned the fan speed down from 2600rpm on my CPU to... 1300rpm.

    The attachment shows what happens to temperatures...
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    Re: [serious] Just learnt a lesson.

    Was the lesson an expensive one, or did your CPU survive this cooking lesson?

    Second question is: Just what were you hoping to accomplish with this? It just seems logical that a cooling fan would cool a system, so turning it off while running up the heat production would cause temperatures to rise.
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    Re: [serious] Just learnt a lesson.

    Quote Originally Posted by Shaggy Hiker
    Was the lesson an expensive one, or did your CPU survive this cooking lesson?

    Second question is: Just what were you hoping to accomplish with this? It just seems logical that a cooling fan would cool a system, so turning it off while running up the heat production would cause temperatures to rise.
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    Re: [serious] Just learnt a lesson.

    Dude, you should have used liquid nitrogen!

    lol. There is a sweet tomshardware article about them overclocking a processor to 5 Ghz http://www.tomshardware.com/2003/12/30/5_ghz_project/

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    Re: [serious] Just learnt a lesson.

    wow thats real cool,
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    Re: [serious] Just learnt a lesson.

    Does that mean, the more we cool our CPU, the better its performance will be? I mean seriously, should I put my CPU inside my refrigerator? Will the performance be better then? My PC has been really annoying me lately, if putting some ice cubes around my CPU will fix the problem then I do not mind?

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    Re: [serious] Just learnt a lesson.

    Quote Originally Posted by Shaggy Hiker
    Was the lesson an expensive one, or did your CPU survive this cooking lesson?
    Would he have a screenshot?

    I tried to OC (just a little) my laptop a while ago, it fried one of my memorybanks. A blessing in disguise though as I replaced that 256mb chip with 1gb.
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    Re: [serious] Just learnt a lesson.

    Quote Originally Posted by damasterjo
    wow thats real cool,
    Wow that's really boring.

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    Re: [serious] Just learnt a lesson.

    Quote Originally Posted by Jacob Roman
    Wow that's really boring.
    Thanks JR.

    And yes chocoloco, when it comes to overclocking, or even normal operations with the processor, the cooler it is the better it seems to run. Of course when you hit minus degrees there is a chance of hitting the "cold bug" wherethe CPU won't work as it's basically frozen.

    Demasterjo, i've read that article before, and wonder why they wanted 5Ghz in the first place, it wouldn't have been very practical at all, and i'm betting you couldn't even run Quake (the original) on it without it malfunctioning.

    The CPU actually hit 65C before starting to cool down, and is actually idling at about 33C now, so everything is fine

    Oh, btw, NEVER overclock a laptop, they're not meant for the excess heat.
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    Re: [serious] Just learnt a lesson.

    Quote Originally Posted by chocoloco
    Does that mean, the more we cool our CPU, the better its performance will be? I mean seriously, should I put my CPU inside my refrigerator? Will the performance be better then? My PC has been really annoying me lately, if putting some ice cubes around my CPU will fix the problem then I do not mind?
    Yes, the cooler, the better. This is because heat creates resistance in the traces of the chip so the electrons flying through them at 99% the speed of light slow down a little... lol.

    I've seen pictures of people with their PC inside a refrigerator.

    I wouldn't put ice cubes in your PC. Water is a conductor.

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    Re: [serious] Just learnt a lesson.

    Quote Originally Posted by thegreatone
    Of course when you hit minus degrees there is a chance of hitting the "cold bug"
    Minus degrees?? I hope you wern't referring to Kelvin...

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    Re: [serious] Just learnt a lesson.

    Yeah, calculations don't do so well at anything negative K.
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    Re: [serious] Just learnt a lesson.

    Quote Originally Posted by gigemboy
    Minus degrees?? I hope you wern't referring to Kelvin...
    Not uncommon to see rigs working at -50C on liquid cooling... They don't stay that way for too long though. The lowest i've seen is -190 ish on LNO2

    Have a look for Team Japan's 7.2Ghz+ Liquid Nitrogen run... Some seriously sick CPU's working in those tests. Actually wouldn't be surprised if they've hit 8Ghz by now.
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