Ok bit of a random idea but started thinking about this a couple of days ago. As we all know a TEC cooler uses electricity to create a hot and cold plate i was wondering could u take the same pinciple of a TEC cpu cooler and apply the same technique with a radiator. I know its a bit crazy but just thought it would be awesome if u could remove extra heat by turning a rad into a TEC rad anyone have any thoughts ?
Am i nuts ?
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And how would you cool the hot side of the TEC ?
It has been proven as a crap idea, and direct TEC cooling is a masssively flawed concept. The heat dumped into a waterloop using TECS is ridiculous and requires a silly amount of cooling.
There is a reason no-one has really used TEC and water cooling in the past 5 years. Air cooled TECs never worked really.
It has been proven as a crap idea, and direct TEC cooling is a masssively flawed concept. The heat dumped into a waterloop using TECS is ridiculous and requires a silly amount of cooling.
There is a reason no-one has really used TEC and water cooling in the past 5 years. Air cooled TECs never worked really.
it would probaably be worse than a standard tec cooler as on a standard one the cold plane is in contact with the cpu whereas if it was in a rad it would only cool the liquid not the actual cpu so less heat would probably be taken away
Yea it was just a theory kinda knew what the answer would be anyway but the idea could work in theory. As in having two radiators one receiving the hot water where it would be electrically passed to the second radiator thus removing heat from the main rad. Like i said its just a theory but in theory that should work and also it should work as in the real world just sadly the physics behind TEC hasnt been utilised properly yet (well i think it hasnt as all the TEC cpu coolers i have seen have been terrible at cooling even though just a normal freezer 7 can remove heat better and physics dicates that it should be better just shame it isnt).
I probably will never try it as it would involve a lot of research but the idea behind it is sound. Maybe one day when cooling is a more serious problem some companies might play around more with the idea of TEC.
Btw jellybeard u saying that TEC coolers actually pump more heat than there was present or ? Reason why i thought of it in the first place is that its the only way i can think of getting the temps below the ambient temperature of the room without going phased changed cooling.
I probably will never try it as it would involve a lot of research but the idea behind it is sound. Maybe one day when cooling is a more serious problem some companies might play around more with the idea of TEC.
Btw jellybeard u saying that TEC coolers actually pump more heat than there was present or ? Reason why i thought of it in the first place is that its the only way i can think of getting the temps below the ambient temperature of the room without going phased changed cooling.
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Yeah, you're adding a heat source. Say for example a 272w TEC on the CPU, 80w GPU (which are probably not enough for todays tech). Imagine your CPU is putting out 150w and the GPU 50w.
While the CPU and GPU will be cold, you will have ie 150w+272w+50w+80w=552w as opposed to 150w+50w=200w a normal CPU loop would have.