How to Cool your computer down and get those nice sub-zero temperatures.

The secret to cooling your computer down is to slowly lower the temperature. Lower it too fast and you could end up with a cold-boot lock or a motherboard crash.

To help minimise the above, let us use the following steps:

• Place a small funnel into the opening of your copper pot and pour either Acetone or Isopypol alcohol into the funnel and never directly into the copper pot (safe working practices here) and fill the pot to about 1/10th of the way up (DO NOT OVERFILL THE POT) Remember to remove the funnel

Funnel to pour in the medium

• On the initial run-simply place two pellets inside the pot and let them ‘fizzle’ away. Please reffer to the guides safety instructions; that is use an old coffee or styrofoam cup in order to scoup out the dry ice pellets.

Foam Cup

• Power on the computer and enter into the BIOS. Here select hardware monitoring (or whatever it says in your particular BIOS) and take a note of the CPU temperature.
• Slowly add more pellets to the pot but once again do not overfill, otherwise the medium will bubble over onto your precious motherboard. You should see your CPU temperatures start to drop.

Motherboard Insulated and Powered On

Temperatures start at plus 40C

Down to 30C Idle

Temperaturesd Lowered to +13c

Temperatures Lowered to +5c

Minus 1c we are now starting to get into the negative temperatures

Minus 16c Note: This motherboard sensor would not go any lower, as it was not capable of doing so.

Dice Fog

Another Scary Movie scene from the copper pot

Final shot of the Dice Fog

DICE Looking like syrup

Final Tip: As one can clearly see, motherboard sensor as not capable of going down to -79c or so that Dry Ice can obtain.

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