Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 16:53:12 02/12/00
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On February 11, 2000 at 23:54:03, Tom Kerrigan wrote: >On February 11, 2000 at 23:42:08, Robert Hyatt wrote: > >>I am definitely talking about 0c. You take the cpu to that temp, it won't last >>long as you get ice crystals, which play hell with gigahertz frequencies. That >>was why the cray was never taken below freezing until the immersion versions and >>they were not much below 0. > >Evidently Kryotech has come up with a solution to this problem, because they are >cooling the Athlon to -40C and running at 1GHz and AMD supports this. > >-Tom I don't believe they are doing this. They are applying -40c to the cpu, but the heat it is producing prevents the cpu from getting to -40 during operation, I'd bet. I'd bet the real cpu temp is well over 0c, if it has a temp thermocouple as my xeons. do. My xeons run at about 106F under heavy load, for a reference.
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