Dry Ice…

How to Cool Your PC with Dry Ice

This Madshrimps article is a complete guide to working with dry ice so you can reach sub-zero temperatures with your CPU and graphics card.

he goal of this article is to provide you with an extensive howto on cooling your PC with Dry Ice, including info on where to obtain it and how to build cooling-containers to mount on your CPU and/or GPU (graphics card).

First a little bit of background information on Dry Ice:

• is frozen carbon dioxide
• has a surface temperature of -109F/-78.5C
• has the advantage of sublimation, as it turns directly from solid state to carbon dioxide gas,
• skipping the liquid phase. This is really good as you don’t need a bleeding valve!
• can be obtained in the form of pellets or big blocks which can be easily broken into smaller pieces with a hammer.

Well very interesting, knowing that PC’s are extremely hot when they’re clocking at quite a high rate! See previous posts on Cooling.

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