PC turned into domestic appliance in mad experiment

Someone with obviously too much time on their hands, and a gourmet bent, has worked out how you can fry an egg using an Athlon XP1500+ CPU.

Trubador details how he turned his PC into a domestic appliance capable of cooking an egg in 11 minutes in a quite remarkable posting on Tekforums, which comes complete with pictures . The man himself has been in touch with us to assure us the experiment wasn't faked.

To start with Trubador opened up his PC, took out the fans and created a heatsink using copper coins, which he clipped onto his CPU using ThermoResin.

"I normally use Arctic Silver but this was just way too thin for the ridges on the coin matching the top of the CPU core," Trubador helpfully explains.

He then turned on his machine and waited for three to four minutes for everything to heat up nicely before putting a silver foil tray on the heatsink, into which he cracked his egg.

"The heat transfer was not up to the quantities of a normal frying pan and it was a tedious task waiting for the Egg to cook but 11 minutes later it was loverly," he reports.

Full report at The Register USA How to fry an egg using an Athlon XP1500+