Re: [TCLUG:17312] Cooling? (Was Sig11)

[Charles Clifton Fulton <cf352197@oak.cats.ohiou.edu>]

Silicon doesn't become a superconductor at any temperature but colder is
always better.  In all reality it becomes about twice as efficient at
around -50C so you don't really have to get it all that cold to see a
pretty big benefit.

Charlie Fulton

On Sun, 7 May 2000, Colin Kilbane wrote:

> Liquid N2?  We don't need no liquid N2! Go for the gold, liquid He. I
> wonder if Intel has tested their processors at 4 kelvin. Does silicon
> go supercondting at extreme temperatures. You could unplug your computerand 
> it would run for weeks. Don't get your tounge stuck to the keyboard!
> 
> Colin Kilbane
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