TEC Water Cooler

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I'm going to buy a Swiftech Watercooling system from OCUK next week, and I was originally thinking of putting a TEC on my CPU... but was told that it wouldn't work with my gpu's as well as it'd all get too hot... but I've had a new idea....

If I were to buy the swiftech stuff and add in a cheapo HDD cooler with a 100w (12v) TEC on the copper side and a giant HSF (120mm from an old mini-fridge) on the hot side of the pelt, would this then cool the water thus lowering the temperature of my cpu and gpu's? I know the flow rate would suffer, but as the water would get a lot colder I'm hoping it wouldn't make too much of a difference.

Thanks.
 
ok let us start. do u mean to use the tec for cooling of the water?

if so that is just stupid as it is not efficient enough of a transfer to be of any use. and a single 120mm fan on the other side is going to be no use as it has no heatsink to extract the heat off the tec "hot" side. So u have just burnt out a tec. also to use a tec you are having to spend a lot for a new tec psu. so wasting lots of money on something that just will not work.

better method of lowering temps is to get a new rad like the 120.3 type ones that have been seen about. this would actually work, so do it.
 
I've had a TEC from my mini-fridge running off my PSU, getting very, very cold and not burning out for the last 4 days (8 hours a day) . I did say I was using a heat sink and fan... not just a 120mm fan... and the heat sink I have is bigger than my hard drive... it was fine till I accidently overtightened the screws and cracked the TEC :(

Is the heat transfer (or should that be cold transfer?) really so in-efficient that it wouldn't cool water running through the massive maze of a HDD cooler?
 
you could try it but i do feel u would find the added cooling that is being produced basicly from the addition of the large heatsink and 120mm fan, heat exchanger is all the tec is capable of, produces heat transfer through it by the application of the current. so the cooling effect of the heatsink to one side is being applied to hte water in the hdd cooler. this i can not see as having a big effect and a second rad would be more efficient depending on ambient room temps and would probably have equal effect on the flow rate.
 
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