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You can fry an egg on a GPU
Video proof inside
Sat May 31 2008, 16:51
HOW MANY GRAPHICS cards does it take to fry an egg?
One, at least according to this YouTube video.
Sent in by an anonymous troublemaker, it has a few flaws, enough so that you shouldn't take it literally, but it still is pretty humorous.
In any case, it is worth a look and a laugh, especially if you have tried to cool a modern gaming PC lately. ยต
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Given that the core junction breakdown temperature of a G80 core is quite high, It would be reasonable to expect that you could cook on it... probably even reliably although the pan vid is obviously a fake... theres enough metal in that pan to cool the gpu down to reasonable levels
we need to think about our envirment
those dual gpu cards get hotter then my cookpit. you know what im going to get one of those that will cut my gas bill down signifficantly when i just bake and fry it on a GX2 or radeon 3870x2 instead and while im cooking i can play games with full quality. i still have to think of some way to get my power bill down also. maybe i should get grandma on a bike with a dynamo yeah that will work. lol :)
nice project anyway i like those ideas feel free to add more.
http://www.phys.ncku.edu.tw/~htsu/humor/fry_egg.html

AMD CPUs just do it better (and for real).
The pan was pre-heated and the video was cut badly. It's obviously a fake. You should know better.
This idea has been done before on various CPUs (but not with a pan that seems to be preheated).

One example is:
http://www.phys.ncku.edu.tw/~htsu/humor/fry_egg.html

I'd say it's possible to do this on a GPU setup, as they seem to be getting uncontrollably more power hungry. It just has to be done right.

Also, the verification code does not show up in Opera.
it is fake .. he use a pre-heated pan
LMAO!! Nice vid! ;D
This one is real 

http://www.phys.ncku.edu.tw/~htsu/humor/fry_egg.html
It is amazing what you can do with a preheated pan. Isn't it?
Meh!

I remember videos of eggs being fried on the old Athlon Thunderbird CPU's, and I wouldn't be surprised if you could cook a full English breakfast (or heat your house) on a Pentium 4 Extreme Edition.
Fake. The pan look pre-heated. No way in hell will a pan conduct heat that quickly.
Great job by this bloke, mulitasking his rig between fraggin and cooking!

I just want to know where the bacon is?

And I like my eggs scrambled thanks!

Oh, and don't forget to clean the egg out of the GPU fan! LOL