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Old January 22nd, 2002, 07:22 AM
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Default Re: OT: over clocking

there was a slashdot article way back when on alcohol based overclocking. the guys that did it put up pictures of the project at various phases and everything.

basically, they took an old 486 and took various bottles of hard liquor from the freezer and used them to cool the processor and the external Cache and stuff. they clocked it up to a few (4 or 5, if i remember) hundred mhz and played quake on it. they say it ran well for a few minutes, then their system suffered mechanical breakdowns. it seemed like their problems could have been fixed by either better design, or simply cycling the bottles so that there were always cold ones available. i honestly dont remember the details very well, though.
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