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can a cpu become too cold?

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Yes, but it would have to be extremely cold for the CPU to stop operating.

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3 hours ago, Tmt97 said:

What if you did sub-zero cooling but submerged it in mineral oil. Not to use the mineral oil for the cooling necessarily, just to prevent condensation. Maybe not even mineral oil, just submerge it in some fluid that doesnt pick up ions or conduct electricity. If there is no air, then there's no condensation.

You see, mineral oil (and a lot of synthetic oils) have "high" freezing point (not that far from 0 degrees Celsius), which renders them useless if you were to build a phase change (or any other serious sub zero cooling) that was cooling the oil in the tank (or just the hardware itself). Also, protecting PCBs (namely mobos and GPUs) in extreme cooling solutions is done by coating the board with some kind of liquid electrical tape, which then creates a barrier between circuits and water that is condensing.

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