Dry Ice Cooling?

[bonker]

Anyone else doing this? Dry ice seems like the ideal cooling methods. It sublimates away and is non conductive.
Pretty much the best way to get serious cooling.

[release]

it's expensive and the cost would be far greater than any performance you could get out of your system unless you could get it free.

[the joint]

Lol, I hope you know that Bonker is putting these ridiculous threads out as jokes.  You shoulda seen his idea to forever leave a fridge with the door open next to your GPU in another thread.

[jackjack]

Lol, I hope you know that Bonker is putting these ridiculous threads out as jokes.  You shoulda seen his idea to forever leave a fridge with the door open next to your GPU in another thread.

Epic!

[bcpokey]

dry ice is actually a common cooling method amongst performance overclockers however. There are pre-made and DIY DICE-pots (dry ice) available and they do give superb performance. However they are probably not cost effective as mentioned, compared to say, running a fan, though it's not really *that* expensive. $1/pound is easy to come by for even a modest customer, and that's a fair amount of dry ice really.

[the joint]

dry ice is actually a common cooling method amongst performance overclockers however. There are pre-made and DIY DICE-pots (dry ice) available and they do give superb performance. However they are probably not cost effective as mentioned, compared to say, running a fan, though it's not really *that* expensive. $1/pound is easy to come by for even a modest customer, and that's a fair amount of dry ice really.

Personally, I do 2 things.  I buy glaciers at bottom-dollar prices, and I buy shit-tons of algae to suck up the carbon dioxide in my room so that heat escapes more easily.

[timmey]

Instead of dry ice you can also use phase change technology to cool you gpu to sub zero temperatures:

http://img842.imageshack.us/img842/4168/coolingunit.jpghttp://img192.imageshack.us/img192/7674/68012488.jpg

Both for CPU but maybe they can build you a GPU version:
http://www.vapochill.ch/en/index.html
http://gear.ocztechnology.com/products/description/OCZ_Cryo_Z/index.html

[kgo]

This is cheaper than dry ice.  Prepare to have your mind blown:

https://encrypted.google.com/search?q=vegetable+oil+cooling

[flyswatta]

This is cheaper than dry ice.  Prepare to have your mind blown:

https://encrypted.google.com/search?q=vegetable+oil+cooling

Vegetable oil turns rancid.  You need to use mineral oil.

[bonker]

dry ice is actually a common cooling method amongst performance overclockers however. There are pre-made and DIY DICE-pots (dry ice) available and they do give superb performance. However they are probably not cost effective as mentioned, compared to say, running a fan, though it's not really *that* expensive. $1/pound is easy to come by for even a modest customer, and that's a fair amount of dry ice really.

Personally, I do 2 things.  I buy glaciers at bottom-dollar prices, and I buy shit-tons of algae to suck up the carbon dioxide in my room so that heat escapes more easily.

This si a valid point. I kept passing out when running my CO2 cooling system, which I put down to CO2. Basically, I just opened the windows and introduced lots of plants in to my room. It is expensive to run hough.