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| wasssup1990 |
Posted - Oct 24 2003 : 7:28:22 PM
Wouldn et it be great when intel and other chip maker's decide to put nitrogen around there chips to keep them cool.
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| kenmce |
Posted - Nov 15 2003 : 10:39:17 AM
As it happens, your chips are running in a 70% Nitrogen atmosphere right now. Any compressed gas could be used to cool your chips. All of them will soak up heat when they expand back into gas.
You don't need to mix Nitrogen with anything else to make it non-flammable. Nitrogen is a noble gas. It won't burn, it won't rust, it doesn't really like to interact with other things chemically.
If you were cooling with liquid Oxygen, then you would have to watch out for fire. That's how they got the Apollo capsule fire, they were working in a high Oxygen atmosphere and things caught fire that normally don't burn.
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| Aaron Cake |
Posted - Oct 27 2003 : 2:13:14 PM
Great idea, but then you have to refill your nitrogen tank everyday....
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| wasssup1990 |
Posted - Oct 26 2003 : 01:21:30 AM
I never new all of that. Thanks for replying.
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| Kale |
Posted - Oct 25 2003 : 4:52:15 PM
The problem with liquid nitrogen is that as it absorbs heat from whatever you are trying to cool it starts to turn back into a gas. You either need a way to recompress and cool it or you have to vent it and pour more fresh liquid nitrogen in to replace what you've lost.
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| cirvin |
Posted - Oct 25 2003 : 11:57:40 AM
now if they cycled the nitrogen through a radiator, then it would work. the thing is, they already do this. look here for stuff that people do: www.overclockers.com (or is it .net?)
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| BEatonNo1 |
Posted - Oct 25 2003 : 02:32:22 AM
its not so much that it would burn, just that it would heat up. Nitrogen is no different from say ice.
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| wasssup1990 |
Posted - Oct 25 2003 : 12:37:53 AM
I did'nt think of that.
But maybe they could do some research and try an mix nitrogen with other materials to make it less flamable. Like you would mix water with lemon juice to make it less bitter.
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| cirvin |
Posted - Oct 24 2003 : 8:19:22 PM
but then the nitrgen will get hot
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