Vodka Cooling experiment!

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lawrence131

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I picked up the $78 Fry's combo for mobo and Pentium D 805 but forgot that it was OEM so no HSF. My HSF won't arrive till Thursday so I decided to do a stupid experiment....

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1. Cover bottom of ice cold vodka glass with aluminum foil in hopes the water will condense on the TOP side of the foil.
2. Apply thermal grease to bottom of foil and CPU.
3. Take a swig of Vodka and push POWER! (or rather short the power jumpers with a piece of metal for a split second since the power_switch cable isn't plugged in :)

So what can an ice cold Vodka accomplish?

1. It'll let you POST, check out BIOS options, even attempt to OC.
2. It'll START to load Windows.
3. Then it'll corrupt your boot partition beyond repair :)

Good thing I backed up before mobo/CPU swap anticipating need to reformat. After I corrupted my boot partition, I rebooted into BIOS again to check out temps. CPU temp =112C and rapidly rising on Vodka cooling =) Cheers!

BTW, I didn't think glass would conduct heat away from the CPU like copper does and with no flow even an ice cold block of copper probably wouldn't work for long, but guess I was bored. At least nothing fried that wasn't meant to be reformatted anyways.
 
Work or not, still very amusing, its the first time I saw a glass of vodka sitting atop a cpu to cool it, lol.
 
Thinking the aluminum foil was causing an issue with heat transfer I tried to re-create your experiment with minor modifications, unfortunately I did not get past "Take a swig of Vodka " got stuck in a loop and now I have a headache. However I am convinced you need to buy a larger bottle of more expensive Vodka and lapp the bottom of the glass, that will reduce your temps by at least a couple of degrees C.
 
This sounds like something a geek would do while drunk.. Cool (no pun intended) nevertheless
 
BillParrish said:
Thinking the aluminum foil was causing an issue with heat transfer I tried to re-create your experiment with minor modifications, unfortunately I did not get past "Take a swig of Vodka " got stuck in a loop and now I have a headache. However I am convinced you need to buy a larger bottle of more expensive Vodka and lapp the bottom of the glass, that will reduce your temps by at least a couple of degrees C.
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I was thinking the same but was afraid of putting the glass straight on top of the CPU because water was already starting to form on the sides. The aluminum sheet likely foiled the experiment though. While the CPU was burning hot the foil barely got warm. (Is Aluminum foil even pure aluminum?)

I'm betting a thin sheet of copper would do the trick - not foil thin but about computer case metal thin. This would give you hardcore gamers a limit on when you're forced to get out of your chair to get another piece of ice :)
 
Manlaw # 48

Wasting alcoholic beverages on geeky experiments is wrong. Booze is for consumption, not exploitation. :mad:
 
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