BrainEater
[H]ard|Gawd
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I'm sitting here thinking about full system cooling.
Regardless of method , whether gas or liquid cooled , the same question keeps popping up.How cold can a mobo/cpu/ram/video card go ?....My initial research is showing mixed results below -40c......Now, this is 35 ish degrees below spec for most parts .....
I'd like to open a discussion on this , but we'll need to set some initial conditions.
Condition 1) water and/or condensation will not be an issue.Consider it a closed system.It's obviously not water based.
Condition 2) The cooling to these low temps will be accomplished slowly to minimize thermal shock.
Condition 3a) While overclocking is implied, it should be stable without.
Condition 3b) Lets assume the high heat loads from cpu/gpu are dissaped to same levels as the rest of it ; I.E the whole system is at -40 .
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Idea's /comments ?
Regardless of method , whether gas or liquid cooled , the same question keeps popping up.How cold can a mobo/cpu/ram/video card go ?....My initial research is showing mixed results below -40c......Now, this is 35 ish degrees below spec for most parts .....
I'd like to open a discussion on this , but we'll need to set some initial conditions.
Condition 1) water and/or condensation will not be an issue.Consider it a closed system.It's obviously not water based.
Condition 2) The cooling to these low temps will be accomplished slowly to minimize thermal shock.
Condition 3a) While overclocking is implied, it should be stable without.
Condition 3b) Lets assume the high heat loads from cpu/gpu are dissaped to same levels as the rest of it ; I.E the whole system is at -40 .
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Idea's /comments ?