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Ness:
Dry ice is merely frozen carbon dioxide. It sublimes - no liquid state. In solid form, it's not going to do anything damaging. In gaseous form, if CO2 (what I wouldn't give for a subscript right now!) damages computers then we'd all be in big trouble just from having stuff in the atmosphere.
Sorry, it's the chemistry degree in me coming out!
V:
Don't apologize, Ness. That is just the information I was looking for. :) That was why I asked. Thank you.
My husband makes such a big deal about dry ice being dangerous to touch and it seems that there are warning signs on the dispenser boxes at the store nowadays. It seemed to me that something "that dangerous" would not be something I would think to save my computer from overheating. Also I was envisioning the tiny wires on the green board getting brittle from being frozen, then perhaps cracking or breaking when the computer was moved off the ice at the end of gameplay.
So please feel free to use your chemistry degree or any other degree you like to tell me why those little wires don't get brittle when they get frozen.
You know, if you feel like it. ;)
Oh, you have subscript available, CO2
Tgdrysix:
Quote from: MrsH on 2006 November 23, 22:49:00
I installed a dashing new NVidia GE Force 7600 graphics card about a month ago
I have a 7600 nvidia GT... which now works.....but only after I added another gb of ram....it would not run correctly with only 1 gb....I would get the dreaded Blue Screen of Death everytime I played....sometimes I would get maybe an hour of play sometimes 5 minutes....I never knew and towards the end it would freeze up as I was saving....and there was nothing I could do but shut my computer down....it was very discouraging cause I had this compute build just to play this game.....now I can...but it took awhile to figure out what was the problem....hope your's get resolved soon....cause I've been in your shoes and it sucks....Tgdrysix
Ness:
So there is! I can now CO2 and H2O, etc to my heart's content!
With my handy SI data book I can tell you that CO2 sublimes at -78C, which is -108.4F for you American people, that's why it's so dangerous to touch!
As for what temperatures that low may do to metal wires and their plastic coatings, I really don't know... presumably it's only going to be a problem if you are trying to move/bend said wires - they may become brittle and break, but things inside a computer are relatively stationary...
Orikes:
How much ram did you add?
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