That last sentence seems very plausible, contracting at different rates and different amounts ? I suppose plopping LN2 on a cpu at room temp produces a very large rate of temperature change, whereas other methods are relatively slow.Quote:
Originally posted by chilly1
This is a cryo pump and is used in vacume chambers, this is a tame one there are cryo pumps that can go down to 2K ...-456.07
The other end of this is a five hp water cooled hydrogen compressor, It uses absorbers in the discharge to get the proper density of hydrogen. This cryo pump will freeze nitrogen.
IBM has had CPU's at -200 and lower, they discovered that CMOS's switching speed is doubled at these temperatures.. what we are finding from the Ln2 guys is that around -120 something is happening that wipes out the processors. It may be that the dissimilar elements of the processor are contracting at different rates and this is the breaking point???
Have you or Fugger noticed any decrease in performance of Fuggers chip over time, I assume it goes through cycles of cold and warm , ie is not always down at -80C.
Regards
Andy