Liquid nitrogen-cooled MSI Wind U100 overclocked to 2.3GHz
By Darren Murph 
posted Nov 25th 2008 7:59AM
posted Nov 25th 2008 7:59AM
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That's pretty cool, uhh hot, uhh...
Nice work!
why?
4ºC can be considered "cool" :)
Why not?
This is in true "because we can" style ;-)
Not unlike hooking a Geo Metro up with nitrous...
Some crazy overclockers had lots of free time, MSI Windo U100, a spare tank of liquid nitrogen and were totally bored. Or so it seems.
Whats next? Nokia N95 overclocked to 500mhz under liquid nitrogen showing awesome java benchmark results?
nope, gives a good idea of the limitations of the architecture, how stable and hot at overclock, the future of the Atom single core, what we can expect from future netbooks, so handy in that sense
Is that a LN canister in your pocket or are you just happy to see me.
OH GOD MAH BALLS ARE FREEZING
Kinda pointless, like tuning a Ford Festiva with jet fuel to make it go 0-60 in 4 sec., Yea pretty impressive for a shite box, but there are other normal cars that can do it without jet fuel...
It would probably make it slower if it ran at all. The detonation would be horrible. I think it's equivalent to 53. Now Avgas would be different. Or in sc you can get like 105 at the pump.
Some people are born as idiots...others...they just have this life long urge to blow themselves up with jet fuel !!
FYI... Jet fuel is actually keroseen... kerosene, being less flamable then gasoline, would not cause your festive to run well. It would be more like a new mac book, without its battery in than an exploding iPod.
i'm sure you think you are just making some ridiculous hyperbole or something... but pretty much any car enthusiast worth his salt is quite well aware of the Festiva-based SHOgun.
a Ford / Yamaha SHO 3.0L V6 mounted mid-ship in a Festiva.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ford_Festiva#The_SHOgun
http://www.motorcities.com/media/image/640/05J98293125700A/1990-Ford-Festiva-ShoGun-A.jpeg
you said 0-60 in 4 seconds... 4.6 in a SHOgun. close enough.
due to extreme rarity... the SHOgun is most likely worth well more that any car you own.
One word; badass.
I have a 2.6 Ghz Intel something. Could I overclock it to like 2.8 without negative side effects? If so, with what program?
I'm not sure exactly what processor it is since I am not at home, I'm using the provided MacBooks in our English 'Classroom for the Future'
The BIOS is your friend, and probably no side effects assuming you've got decent cooling (However I think that a 200mhz increase should be enough for the stock cooler to handle)
You might have a decreased life expectancy for your chip though, although again, due to the sliiiiight increase in clock speed, it probably wouldn't do anything measurable.
Oh, and to the rest: If I'm wrong or missing out on anything, prove me wrong. I haven't overclocked something in AAAAGES :(
Oh, and Macs don't overclock (with the exception of the Mac Pro)
:^\
No real point in doing that.
Moreover it won't play crysis anyway.
Overclocking is an art that is hard to be mastered. No, not really. Still, it all really depends on your components, so giving advice here really doesn't help. But 2.6 to 2.8 GHz doesn't sound like much, so that shouldn't be a problem, but again, your components. Does your motherboard support it? How? Only BIOS or is there software under Windows to do it? Will your RAM still be stable when OCed? What about the temperature? There are enough forums and websites dedicated to this, so enjoy reading.
Nice overclock, though I'd expect LN2 to archive better results. 1.6 to 2.3 GHz isn't really that impressive. And yeah, pointless but cool.
this is so awesome!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I regularly run my MSI Wind with no change in cooling at 2GHz and it's totally stable so I don't find this surprising at all. The only surprise is how little difference the extra cooling makes.
If i was to pour liquid nitrogen over my dogs head would he run at more or less 70% faster.....or do i need that 2 gigs of ram ??
Wait no thats cruelty to animals.....and machines......
[dog and laptop barks in agreement in the background]
It took liquid nitrogen to get a 1.6Ghz chip to go to 2.3?!?! What the hell kinda heat does that chip put out?
Considering it only uses 4w, probably not very much!
But it probably just doesn't like overclocking otherwise!
You know, until 2.2 GHz, the increase in heat output is barely measurable with an industrial class computer thermometer, but as soon as you go a bit above that, the supporting micro-thermonuclear safety IC, elaborately camouflaged as southbridge, automatically kicks in to stabilize the die's structural integrity, reducing the risk of sudden gamma ray bursts that may or may not turn your brain into a bubbling mush.
I am thinking it was more of a lack of proper mounting options for a regular HS. Since if you look at the pictures it doesn't even appear to have a heat pipe cooler, just what looks to be an aluminum sink with a blower next too it. If you could have gotten a traditional CPU HS to keep good contact that probably would have been more then able to keep the OC Atom cool. Looks like it was just easier to cool a large area of the board with liquid nitrogen.
Its not even a heatsink in it stock. Its a flat piece of aluminum that gets air blown over it.
THREE WORDS: This Is Stupid
that's what your mum said at your birth
The 3cell battery inside this thing is probably gasping for air.
Now that you mention pushing low-end CPUs to the limit, I remember that I used to overclock my Palm m515 with a hack called AfterBurner... It did work, performing somewhat faster, but draining the battery way more quicker. The add-on keyboard didn't actually work at all when OCd, but meh, I did it for the lulz, and actually got some when half of my apps started crashing abnormally.
Grammar nazi fail.
Try leaving the US once in a while. Or you could go on something called the internet.
In "American" there is no such word as "mum" but there is in English.
I vote this funniest comment of the day.
"I don't know what the F#*K a mum is you illiterate bastard, but my "MOM" said know such thing!"
You mention illiteracy but then bugger it up yourself. This is failblog material!
Still, there was no reason for the original response or the over-reacting response to that either.
So... mine his 2.0Ghz with nothing done to it. I should make it unusable for 300mhz? I'll pass.
Actually, given the relatively advanced manufacturing process of Atom (remember - 45 nm, high-K, etc), 2.4 GHz seems very, very low. Either the CPU design has something intrinsic that fails at high frequencies or some other part of the system failed first - RAM, chipset, etc.
Yet another futile argument between Brits and Americans...you both understood each other, what's your problem?
I don't get it, how did they get 2GB of RAM in there? I thought all the Atom single core CPUs were chipset limited to 1GB?
Negative. The most limited atom 270 netbook that comes to mind is the Acer Aspire One, which has a max of 1.5 gigs because it has 512mb soldered to the board and the single available slot maxes at 1 gig--the mobo's doing, not the Atom's.
And to the post, virtually every Atom netbook can go to 1.9ghz on air without instability, so while anything involving liquid nitrogen is, uh, cool, 2.38 tells you just how little overhead the atom 270 has to work with. I'm eager for the next generation of netbook processors so the ASUS n10j's configuration can become a little more common.
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Because nothing says Netbook like the nitrogen tank accessory.
Whats really funny is Americans correcting people from the UK.
What is the language called again ? E-N-G-L-I-S-H
Do French Canadians hang around on French websites correcting spelling and grammar ? The mind boggles.
You do realize you said "MOM said know such thing" dont you? If your willing to correct someone else's grammar, start by saying "MOM said no such thing". No and Know are two different words in case your mom failed to enroll you in preschool because she thought this was all stupid.
its funny they can do all this and still have no clue how to take a screencap XD
Probably not stable enough to take a screen cap. You actually believe they don't know how to take a screen cap?
you're
You just have to love the utter insanity of this!
this is like putting a $5000 turbo charger in a $1900 Honda Civic. Pointless.
Doesn't seem like that high of an overclock, but required liquid nitrogen. So i guess the atom can't overclock that well
Well, the KNOW was actually joking, Damien I am glad you caught the PUN of it. Also, I don't hate UK people or try to correct them. I didn't realize this was a UK run website, sorry on that one. I still don't care what a mum is, and I still don't like it! LP, that was a good catch the you're. I also still think this is a stupid post. I guess as a free American I am entitled to my opinion and free speech, right? Anyone? Yeah, that is what I thought. Eiki your still a tard for that original response, but thanks for making me forum famous!
Just because it's an American website doesn't mean that only Americans can visit it. Hence the name WORLD WIDE Web.
And now, EK has made a World WIde Douche of himself.