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.
 
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?
 
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