Anyone got a Titan Amanda or Vanessa yet?

what is the TEc and how does it acctually work? does it zap the heat or something? :P
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In simple terms TEC's work by applying a voltage from the cold plate to the hot plate, electrons travelling from the cold side due to this voltage carry heat away from the cold plate and this heat is then deposited on the hot side. While the average temperature of the peltier remains almost the same ( add a few degrees due to heat generated by the TEC itself), an incredible and fairly constant temperature difference of around 40 degree C(dependant on TEC) over only a couple of mm of the TEC peltier is maintained.

As the electrons can generally carry away heat faster than it can be absorbed at ambient temps you can get below room level temps on the cold side.

Generally, any HSF that can dissipate heat as fast as the source(cpu) can generate it will maintain a good temp.

If you don't have sufficient cooling for your heat source the temps will rise on the hot side and as the temp difference stays constant the heat will also rise on the cool side.

A more powerful TEC will create a larger temp difference and better cooler will keep the average temps of the TEC lower.

Whilst they sound like a great idea, the extra heat generated by the TEC can fast warm up you PC case. They also use a lot of power to perform well and the extra TEC heat pushes case temps up further.

They are best used with water cooling and an external radiator. (great if you live in the arctic circle).

Correct me if i am wrong anyone.

Russty ;)
 
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I like the last line from the wiki link:

A Peltier cooler/heater or thermoelectric heat pump is a solid-state active heat pump which transfers heat from one side of the device to the other. Peltier coolers are also called thermo-electric coolers (TEC).
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i was looking at the vanessa too as a possible cooler for my build. Looks impressive in size and airflow too. Was either debating this or the AC7 Pro but like the Vanessa better.

Would also like to know what the vanessa is like. I cannot see why it would be a bad cooler...
 
i have both of the heatsinks and theres only 7degrees between the 2 (obviously the amanda is giving the lower temps)
 
I'm running a Vanessa-L (well, I am when I'm not waiting for my board to be RMA'd :rolleyes: ) and I've been very impressed with it. Rather stupid design, it blows a lot of air out of the top rather than through the fins... But still, cools fantastically well. I can't compare to a TT or similiar, but the Tom's Hardware review had it beat the TT on load and idle temps, and volume too.

It looks ridiculous, of course...
 
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