New PC Setup with Peltiers & Water Cooling

Imperium

Imperium

Imperium

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Hi all, just looking for opinions and advice on my new setup which im slowly building.

so far its Q6600 processor, 4 gb of pc6400 ram, Gigabyte GA-965P-DQ6. I have just ordered 2 WD 36gb raptors (16mb cache ncq) in RAID 0 and intend to install the OS (win xp 64bit) onto them, then create a partition just for the swap file (64k cluster size, bigger is fastest ryt?).

For cooling i intend to use a 550watt peltier for the cpu and a 90watt one for the Nbridge, on top of the cpu and pelt im gonna put the thermaltake volcano 4005 and situate my radiator outside on my roof, the pump ill be using is a eheim and pumps 10 liters per min.

The PC will mainly be used for rendering 3D work, photoshop, maya, 3d max etc.

Any advise or suggestions please as im new to the cool side :)

Cheers.
 
I have had an eheim 1048 running 24/7 since April 2003 in the PC i am posting from, saying that my rad is inside the case along with the eheim, not on the roof. :p
 
Wattage of pelts + wattage of the item they're cooling = total heatload.

You'll have towards 850w of total heatload, which on a triple rad such as the PA120.3 would require in excess of 120cfm per fan moving thru the rad (ie: 360cfm of air in total moving thru the rad). This amount of air changes from radiator to radiator. The smaller the radiator, the more air you're going to need going thru it to cool the heatload.

Does the airflow on your roof provide 360cfm thru the rad once shrouded? If not, you're gonna struggle to stop those TECs from cooking.
 
Are you sure a roof mounted radiator is gonna work? I know this is the UK, but dont a lot of eco types use roof mounted water systems to actually heat their water? Something big and black and in direct sunlight will get pretty warm in my opinion.....


PK!
 
You need to be using a shared large passive res, and about three 1/2" 360mm rads. Also, why are you putting yourrads on the roof?

You will kill your flow rate, and in the summer won't they be getting direct sunlight, and how will your fans work outside?

How do you plan on powering the 550watt pelt? I'd like to know so i can get one hehe.

You know that pelts are only good if you can cool the hotside effectively.

I would go for the "winstone" i think its called block. you can wack four 1/2" pipes on it.

whats the size of the 550watt pelt? your going to need a massive cold plate i think?
 
550w pelt :eek: im thinking finely tuned tripple cascade phaze would struggle to cool that one effectively... may want a bit of a re-think...
 
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