peltier chip for external reservoir cooling

[gavin mc]

Hi, i have read some info about the previous attempts of using peltier chips for pc cooling.I seen that there is the low powered usb1 can cooler (lol) just wondering if there would be any benefit in fitting a tube res inside it with whatever mods required to add in your liquid cooling tubes and have the unit outside the pc.
Or to take it further replace the peltier chip with a more powerful one and use a higher powered usb3 cable to power it with also some giant cpu heatsink stuck to the base.
firstly i don't actually need to cool my pc with external reservoirs as i have a cosmos 2 waiting to be built on, it's just for speculation on whether it would serve a use to have your liquid cooling actually cooler than your ambient room temperature, i thought a start would be this can cooler as it has its own unit and is low powered experiment/trial. whats your ideas ??? thank you.

 

[Danm54]

I think you'd struggle with the fact the can cooler is made to keep a liquid cool, not be constantly heated by your cooling loop.

Also, I'm not sure what kind of cooling can be had using just the power supplied via a usb cable.

I'm no expert in peltiers though!

 

[pgi947]

Peltiers require 12v and quite a bit of current, usb couldn't give you the current required.

I thought about this my self, in the end decided it would be to much hassle and more complex than it seems on the surface as one side gets ice cold the other red hot so you have to setup a heating to take away heat from the hotside as well as insulating the cool side.

Easier solution = save up and buy a chiller.