The 6.9GHz CPU - LN2 Cooling

To celebrate the nicest day of the year, 6/9, we recruited overclocker Splave to help us get a CPU up to 6.9GHz. A LOT of liquid nitrogen was used.

Make Splave famous:

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MUSIC CREDIT
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Intro: Laszlo - Supernova

Outro: Approaching Nirvana - Sugar High

CHAPTERS
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0:00 - Linus gets things thrown at him
0:35 - UGreen!
0:49 - Linus plays with LN2
1:49 - Why would you want LN2 for overclocking?
2:30 - How to prep for -193C
5:58 - How to hardcore overclock
8:05 - Alex attempts to overclock
11:25 - Splave does an overclock
13:29 - Linus comes back, is amaze
15:56 - MSI!
16:35 - Outro

[linussebastian]

Couple points! Thank you Nikolay Pelov and linuxgeex

At this low a voltage, the motherboard should never arc.

Also, the true thermal barrier isn't even the increased resistance. It's the reduced impedance due to increased quantum tunnelling as temperature goes up, which increases leakage current, which is the majority source of the increased heat once you get into thermal runaway.

[AndroidBugler]

Allen is an absolute UNIT
I guess he does only 2 things in life, lift and OC

[wasabiwaxy]

Loved this guy. He's got a gentle giant vibe to him

[cianboy]

Splave is a massive guy. If I was a CPU I would simply overclock as high as he wanted me to

[Kingcrab]

I really like Splave. He's so chill and knowledgeable. Though, to be fair: most of Linus's crew has a unique and fun personality.

[rcninjastudio]

rumours are is that Splave didn't use nitrogen to cool the cpu, he just told it what he wanted and the cpu was too scared not to do anything else 💪😝

[tkirchmann]

Linus got jealous of Steve's giant well polished cylinder.

[eccentricOrange]

Alex and Splave just doing it perfectly, completely chill, no problems at all.

_[Enter Linus]_ Whooo–OH, BSOD (15:23 15:39)

[Unprotected]

P-cores at 6.9GHz and E-cores at 4.2GHz. We're hitting all the nice numbers in this video.

[MinistryOfMagic_DoM]

I love how the professional overclocker is standing there watching Linus explain what he does lol. He looks like he wants to jump in and explain it.

[Sadistichippo]

SPLAVE needs a YouTube channel. Dudes vibe was amazing. Just a joy to watch

[JG]

Splave is the sorta dude you'd want having your back in a rough alley and some sort of zen tournament of absolute controlled power

[MikeS]

I love how much fun Linus has been having lately.

[johngermain]

You really exceeded our expectations this time, by bringing Splave, a world famous overlooking expert to hit Golden Sample CPU's with LN2. Good Job!

[gialuquinXD]

Oh men, When Luinus comes back and is amazed 13:29 LOL, I know that he is not faking it.
I honestly feel the same way just by looking at this video, soo well produced with a touch of love, personality, and a real passion for all of you guys' disciplines.
Thanks for soo much, LTT Team.

[naturally_rob]

That was the most chill dude I've ever seen. So soft spoken. So calm.

It contrast well with Linus going "WEEeeEe" while pouring the liquid cold

[jakubstefek]

I have to say this, I am really impressed by your water bottles and how well they are isolated. I never thought they can hold something like liquid nitrogen for such a long time and that you can hold it with your bare hands.

[KaminKevCrew]

I sincerely hope that if a CPU manufacturer ever releases a SKU that can hit 6.9ghz, they’ll call it the ‘Nice’ edition.

[BBWMEPLZ]

A video like this has been a long time coming. As a fellow LN2 overclocker, I’m happy to see this. While there are a lot of caveats in some stuff you said, you did an excellent job in packing it all in to a short time-frame. Kudos.

[EdgyShooter]

One of my favourite memories from my undergraduate is completely forgetting the project we were supposed to be doing and dunking everything we could find into liquid nitrogen, including a USB stick which we then transported via tongs to the computers and plugged in 😅