Dry Ice: Another Substance for Extreme Overclockers

PC Cooling Using Dry Ice – Worth a Try?

by Yaroslav Lyssenko

[ 05/17/2005 | 02:22 PM ]

Madshrimps has posted an article about using dry ice, or frozen carbon dioxide. The editorial provides with a detailed guide on how to reach sub zero temperatures with using the dry ice, including how to build cooling-containers, mount them on a processor or graphics card and also where to get the substance.

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“Why use Dry Ice? For overclocking only, pure and simple. It is not usable for daily 24/7 cooling, it’s mostly used by those people who like to push their PC to a higher speed. By using subzero cooling you can obtain impressive overclocks. Dry Ice will provide you better performance than air- and water-cooling, as well as single stage phase change cooling setups. Due to its low cost and lower risk than LN2 it can be used easily in a wide variety of environments, cascaded phase change setups are more expensive and require a higher technical barrier as they are not available off-the-shelve,” claims Madshrimps web-site.

• Madshrimps: How to Cool your PC with Dry Ice.