there was some talk of over clocking & how hot your CPU gets. thus, you might find the following interesting. a short excerpt followed by the link to the whole artical. -------------------------------------------------------------------- On June 1, 1999, a twenty-seven-year-old department-store night manager named Eric Caward made technological history. First he carefully removed the innards from his Intel Celeron 333-megahertz computer. Then he placed the motherboard, still wired to its hard drive, monitor, and power supply, at the bottom of a small homemade container. Into this rough-hewn tank he then started emptying one bottle after another of mineral oil, the edible kind used in food processing and enemas. He didn't stop pouring until the motherboard was immersed nine inches deep. Then he laid a rack of coolant coils (wrenched from the guts of a $230 window air conditioner) across the top of the tank and, using a small electric garden-fountain pump, circulated the mineral oil up and over the coils until the liquid chilled to approximately minus ten degrees centigrade. And then he turned on his PC, which, lo, booted up just fine. And thus it was that Eric Caward entered history that day: the first person on record to immerse a functioning computer in a vat of supercooled laxative. -- From Julian Dibbell's Column, "Faster, Processor! Chill! Chill!" IDEE FIXE | 06.19.00 "Faster, Processor! Chill! Chill!" In an obsessive quest for ever-faster microprocessors, a rare breed of hi-tech tweakers known as "overclockers" risks fire, ice, and electric shock to test the limits of digital velocity. Julian Dibbell reports. http://www.feedmag.com/feature/fr349_master.html?alert Adrian Smith 'de telepone dude Telecom Dept. x 7042 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
