Clever man overclocks his house

zekrahminator · Apr 1, 2007

It seems that you can overclock way more than just your computer. A man in Kentucky has managed to overclock everything in his house, simply by increasing the frequency in his electric current. Inspired by the "measly" performance of all his electronics, Lance Hatler decided that 60Hz was not enough for his house. After a lot of trial and error, along with several trips to the emergency room, Hatler has managed to overclock his electrical current to 900MHz. Increasing this frequency any further caused minor fires and structural instability (no his house didn't bluescreen

). A mere example of all this extra power is Hatler's newfound ability to shred 2x4's (large pieces of wood) in his garbage disposal. Unfortunately, due to the extreme heat output of this overclock, Hatler had to put a gigantic CPU cooler on top of his house. His house maintains a balmy 115 degrees Fahrenheit. When asked what Hatler plans to do next, he claims he will break the 1GHz barrier with the help of liquid cooling.

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Darksaber · Apr 1, 2007

April fools...?

WeStSiDePLaYa · Apr 1, 2007

once again, very lame joke.

new_rez · Apr 1, 2007

somebody doesn't have a sense of humor

Chewy · Apr 1, 2007

hey this is a funny not joke!

zekrahminator · Apr 1, 2007

WeStSiDePLaYa said:
once again, very lame joke.

Lighten up, it's April fools day

.

Keiki · Apr 1, 2007

Omg That's My House!

Conti027 · Apr 1, 2007

lol thats funny

KillZone · Apr 1, 2007

Actually back in the 40's most of North America ran at 50MHZ on our power supply.

WeStSiDePLaYa · Apr 1, 2007

KillZone said:
Actually back in the 40's most of North America ran at 50MHZ on our power supply.

Hz, not MHz. big difference. now its 60Hz in NA.

KillZone · Apr 1, 2007

Sorry, yeah HZ of course.

KillZone · Apr 1, 2007

To Quote:

Up to the '40's the iron laminations of rotors and stators of electric motors and generating equipment were poor quality and hysteresis losses were a major factor. (note how large old electric motors are compared to newer ones). Higher frequencies would have worsened the losses so up 'till then 25 Hz was common in Canada and the US.
When better steel was used for laminations, north America changed to 60 Hz about 1950, the Europeans decided 50 Hz was the cat's meow.

SPHERE · Apr 1, 2007

ha. ha. verry funny lol

LordSeshamaru · Apr 1, 2007

Lol Nice joke man

Happy April Fools Day Everyone!!!!!!

Fleekar · Apr 1, 2007

That thing is gonna blow the roof apart and then everything else under! :roll:

LordSeshamaru · Apr 1, 2007

Fleekar said:
That thing is gonna blow the roof apart and then everything else under!

YEah ROFLMAO :roll:

Alcpone · Apr 2, 2007

De ja vu

Firedomain · Apr 2, 2007

getting sick of the April fools crap. this is a news site about hardware & gaming, not a comedy club.

stop posting s**t ppl.

ex_reven · Apr 2, 2007

firedomain said:
getting sick of the April fools crap. this is a news site about hardware & gaming, not a comedy club.

stop posting shit ppl.

its only been one day
you might enjoy it more if you pulled out whatever stick is currently lodged in your ass :laugh:

Since comedy = fun/entertainment
and
Gaming = fun/entertainment
comedy = gaming?

So this website must just be a news site for hardware...i guess :cool:

LordSeshamaru · Apr 2, 2007

ex_reven said:
its only been one day
you might enjoy it more if you pulled out whatever stick is currently lodged in your ass

Since comedy = fun/entertainment
and
Gaming = fun/entertainment
comedy = gaming?

So this website must just be a news site for hardware...i guess

but wait....hardware is used with operating systems to run games
and since games = comedy
YAAAAAAY everythings comedy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Yea its 1000000% true.... ppl need to haf fun tooo and comedy is gud fer dat...
u dont wanna live a dam serious life all da time and piss off every minute :banghead:

do u wanna be lyk dat?? :banghead:

man im here fer hafin fun and learning abt hardware n things in the fun way

not lyk learnin frm prfs. in damn coll and bcome like>>>>:shadedshu
:rockout:

have fun wid da joke :rolleyes:

WarEagleAU · Apr 2, 2007

This is the funniest April Fools post Ive ever read. When I was at work, I was telling Francis Katumba about this guy. Funny as shit. I laughed so hard I was crying. Thanks.

Thermopylae_480 · Apr 3, 2007

firedomain said:
getting sick of the April fools crap. this is a news site about hardware & gaming, not a comedy club.

stop posting s**t ppl.

It's only one day a year. I think you'll survive

. Everybody likes to have a little fun.

Firedomain · Apr 4, 2007

soz, just been a shit day thats all!!!! lol

my appologies 4 taking it out on TPU!

catchas

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Processor	AMD Athlon 64 X2 4800+ Brisbane @ 2.8GHz (224x12.5, 1.425V)
Motherboard	Gigabyte sumthin-or-another, it's got an nForce 430
Cooling	Dual 120mm case fans front/rear, Arctic Cooling Freezer 64 Pro, Zalman VF-900 on GPU
Memory	2GB G.Skill DDR2 800
Video Card(s)	Sapphire X850XT @ 580/600
Storage	WD 160 GB SATA hard drive.
Display(s)	Hanns G 19" widescreen, 5ms response time, 1440x900
Case	Thermaltake Soprano (black with side window).
Audio Device(s)	Soundblaster Live! 24 bit (paired with X-530 speakers).
Power Supply	ThermalTake 430W TR2
Software	XP Home SP2, can't wait for Vista SP1.

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