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I just finished reading Absolutely Small, a book on quantum physics. In it the author says that when semiconductors get very cold the electrons no longer have enough energy to jump the band gap, and therefor they do not work.
I have also watched a video of a guy who poured liquid nitrogen onto his processor to overclock it to something like 6 GHz. I was wondering how this is possible? Is it that the processor never gets that cold due to the overclocking?
I have also watched a video of a guy who poured liquid nitrogen onto his processor to overclock it to something like 6 GHz. I was wondering how this is possible? Is it that the processor never gets that cold due to the overclocking?