Dream Machine PC Hits 5.46GHz

Thursday, Mar. 9 2006 | Author: Dave

A computer originally made to run a much more normal 3.8GHz, has been overclocked to 5.46GHz. Amazing cooling, and some premium memory allow the system to run and basically just be something that geeks can drool over.

Asetek (DK), Kingston Technology Europe Ltd., and Western Digital (US) have joined forces to build and demonstrate one of the fastest commercially available PCs in the world at CeBIT 2006. The Dream Machine, equipped with top picked hardware running CPU speed at amazing 5.46 GHz, is on display at asetek’s booth

One of the things I notice about this set-up over many others I have seen, is that this computer is still very beautiful. Look at the wiring job, and whatnot. Very sweet. I wonder how much it would cost to have something like this at home?

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4 Responses for "Dream Machine PC Hits 5.46GHz"

John

March 9th, 2006 at 5:46 pm
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That is an awesome design for water cooling. The tube running to the CPU has (I’m assuming an inlet and outlet water pipe, and both of them are surrounded by insulation allowing chilled water to pump through the waterblock without causing condensation in the case. The block itself appears to be thermally isolated from the case as well. The only problem I ran in to is the motherboard is thin enough that the back of the board would build up ice around where the socket was. Covering it in rubber insulation and dielectric grease did the trick, but was super messy. I’d like to see the back of the motherboard in that setup.

Another factor was noise. There were no fans in my setup and the water pump was fairly quiet, but running a 1/4hp window A/C compressor (even without the fan, the evap. coil was submerged in an acrylic water reservoir built around it) sounded like there was a lawn mower in my room. What kind of noise does this generate? But at 5.46GHz who cares I guess? :-)
cliche

March 9th, 2006 at 9:48 pm
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I’m a bit skeptical (like always). How stable is this thing? I know it’s water cooled by the best and everything, but no hard numbers are presented. Overclocking is a joke: The challenge is stability.
pete

March 10th, 2006 at 3:32 pm
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the block on the cpu is not water cooling.. its phase cooling, its like similar technology to your household fridge. will give cpus negative temps.
John

March 10th, 2006 at 10:28 pm
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Ahh ok. My water cooling setup was phase change as well but with the water loop in between the evap coil and the cpu, instead of putting the evap coil (block) directly on the die.

This really brings up the question of how they are insulating the back of the board then, since direct die phase change cooling will give you even lower temps than a water cooling setup would. My record low was in the mid twenties (fahrenheit), running about 40/60 antifreeze and water.