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September 06, 2007 | Comments: (0)

Beers vie for CPU-coolant title

TAGS: Friday fun, The lighter side

Despite a seemingly multimillion-dollar ad campaign to convince the world that its mere presence can frost away the heat, Coors Light came in distant last in what amounts to the world's first International Beer CPU Coolant Competition hosted by the ever-curious folks at Tom's Hardware.

For those late to the beer-as-CPU-coolant craze, Shelton Romhanyi and company pitted Molson's Canadian Beer against three industry-leading CPU coolants and a diluted solution of antifreeze to determine the best means possible for cooling an overclocked CPU. Shocking to some, the flat, warm libation from the Great White North took home second place.

Not to be outpaced de facto by their Canadian co-workers, the folks at Tom's sites in Germany, Ireland, and the United States proferred their own quaffable contenders to attempt to knock Molson's off the block as the world's best beer CPU coolant.

Guiness, Franziskaner Hefe-weissbier, and Coors Light were put through the beer-bong-tubing CPU-cooling ringer to varying efficacy.

Viscosity may have played a role in Guiness's pasting of the pathetic showing of the American frost-brewed light. And the unfiltered yeast present in the Hefe-weissbier may very well have proved the key cooling ingredient in Franziskaner's tipping the CPU temperature scale further to the cool end of the spectrum than Guiness did.

And yet at the end of this installment, nothing cooled to the extent of the original, as Molson's remained the top beer for whisking CPU heat away.

Posted by Jason Snyder on September 6, 2007 12:18 PM

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