Basic thoughts

With project Pandora Besi deals with a fundamental subject in extreme overclocking. If you want to overclock components as high as possible you need to keep a certain low temperature constant to get the best results. This is also the reason why at bench sessions it is useful to have a second person that looks after the cooling using liquid nigrogen. After some time the team finds reaches certain temperature levels where the system freezes. The first of these levels overclockers call the cold-bug. Once hit the cold-bug overclockers need to restart the system and run straight into the second problem: the cold-boot. The point defines the temperature level at which the system still boots. Usually it can be found about 20 Kelvin above the cold-bug. After the system restarted the team is looking forward to keep the temperatures as close to the cold-bug as possible.




And exactly at this point Pandora shows up. When you know cold-bug and cold-boot one can program the Pandora that it keeps the temperature stable some one or two Kelvin above the cold-bug or in terms of rebooting above the cold-boot.



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