LN2 Overclocking
PC Hardware
OSU Fun Facts
Cryogenics
Computer History
100

K in Intel's CPU's stands for this 

what is Unlocked/Overclockable?

100

This word is used by Intel to describe their code names

What is Lake?

100

This College has roughly
10,780 students enrolled

What is College of Engineering?

100

This element reaches –196 °C when in its liquid form.

What is Nitrogen

100

This device, invented by Douglas Engelbart in 1964, revolutionized how users interact with computers.

What is a computer mouse?

200

This layer forms on hardware during LN₂ sessions as moisture freezes out of the air.

What is condensation / frost buildup?

200

Three types of Cooling that aren't Air and Water

What is immersion,Ln2 SCO2, Dry Ice, Helium 

200

This is the oldest building on campus built in 1888.

 What is Community Hall?

200

This effect occurs when a liquid skitters on a surface much hotter than its boiling point.

What is Leidenfrost effect?

200

This company released the first commercially successful personal computer that resembles modern systems in 1977.

What is Apple?

300

This term describes when a CPU cannot POST or operate because temperatures have dropped too low.

What is cold bug?

300

This term is used to describe a variation between chip to chip performance 

What is Silicon Lottery?

300

This facility on campus required OSU to form campus police.

What is a Nuclear Reactor?

300

This property describes a material’s ability to conduct heat, which increases sharply in metals at cryogenic temperatures.

What is thermal conductivity?

300

This is the FIRST Intel CPU that was made in 1971.
Hint: It does not use the term lake

What is Intel 4004?

400

This Intel technology allows multiple cores to appear as twice as many threads to the operating system.

What is Hyper‑Threading?

400

This Intel processor was released in 2022.

What is Raptor Lake?

400

This building was built in 1949.

What is Dearborn Hall?

400

This liquid is commonly used in MRI machines because of its extremely low boiling point of –269 °C. Hint: This fluid was also used on Elmor’s and ScatterBencher’s 9.1 GHz chip.

What is Liquid Helium?

400

This operating system, released in 1985, introduced a graphical user interface.

What is Windows 1.0?

500

This hardware modification involves soldering a resistor to a GPU, allowing higher power limits.

What is a shunt mod?

500

This term describes the practice of removing a CPU’s integrated heat spreader to improve thermal transfer.

What is delidding?

500
This infamous sociopath took someone from the corner of the MU

Who is Ted Bundy?

500

Cryogenic fuels like liquid hydrogen and oxygen were critical to the success of this NASA program.

What is Apollo?

500

This woman, celebrated as a “human computer,” calculated orbital trajectories by hand and helped launch the first Americans into space.

Who is Katherine Johnson?
Katherine Goble

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