DICE helps?

[Toxcity]

This subject started on the Competition thread.. Ham and I decided it is too off topic. So i started the thread here.

My question is how does Co2 help cool chips?

I found this subject uber interesting and wanted to learn more and maybe do it myself.

Cheers guys!

[Ham]

Righty ho.

Dry ice is solid CO2. Its compressed and cooled from a gas too a solid. Too remain as a solid it needs too be kept cool. And therefore, at room temperature it starts changing phase from a solid too a gas (sublimates). To achive this it needs heat. Wich it will take form any availbie source. Ususaly the surroundings. But using special containers known as slugs, its used too cool cpus too rediculously low temps.

Ill dig out a PT chart wich will show some of the latent temps....

[Toxcity]

Nice reply there Ham.

How old are you again?

[Ham]

Thats one of kingpins slugs.



Some dice form a google image search...

I can't find a P-T chart for co2.

& Im 18.

[Toxcity]

Bloody hell that stuff is impressive..

And for an 18 year old you sure know alot!

May have to get into this kinda cooling later in life!

Ham, do you have any experience in this kind of cooling?

[Ham]

Lol, i just spend too much time reading PC stuff .

Ive never dabbled in this kind of stuff (...yet).Its quite costly and the risk to hardware is huge. Gonna concentrate on my phase before i try anything like this myself.

[PV5150]

A very very basic insight

Or a little more in-depth

[Ham]

Why oh why didn't i check wikipedia...

Nice find Pvs

[PV5150]

Not a problem mate...I'm a science and mathematics nut.

[Joe]

EDIT :: nevermind covered by prev posts