Pletiers

[Cyanide]

Peltiers

How well do these little beasties work? And is it worth adding one to a watercooling system on the CPU for added temperature drop? If so I might be tempted to borrow one from work...

 

[Cyanide]

bah! Damn my inaccurate typing!

I know what they are, I found a shelf full of cooling stuff at work today and read up on them, I just want to know how well they work cooling a CPU, if they'd work with any of this stuff (ideally the premium... to which I can fit dual rads) and how complex it is to rig up (taking into consideration my desire to water cool my cpu and 2 7800gt's). I can get ahold of non-conductive silicon spray to waterproof and loooads of various sizes of copper blocks from work, I just don't know if any of it's worth doing or not.




errmm.. anyone know how I can change the title of this thread? *embarrassed*

 

[Cyanide]

According to AMD my CPU's only 89w, therefore a 170w peltier should be enough, which wouldn't strain the 630w maximum of my PSU even with SLI... rigging up brackets etc. for the Apogee from OCUK wouldn't be too much of a problem (I've heard it's a damned good cooler) my only concern would be the heat of the coolant which would also have to cool 2 7800gt's...

It's no hassle for me to put together mounting brackets and cooling plates etc at work, but I don't think we've got any milling equipment small enough for the kind of precision needed to make my own water block.