The love of TEC's

Cyanide

Cyanide

Cyanide

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Nabbed a 110w 12v TEC from work today, set it up with my water cooling loop and looksies what I've got!



It's only got temporary insulation on it for now, I'm going to have a look in our store for some neoprene and insulation/waterproof grease tomorrow, but I'm very impressed at the moment!

Time so see if I can increase my overclock...
 
It's an awful mess at the moment, but I'll try to dig out my old digital camera

Just a quick question... at what point will the cold side of the TEC get too hot and get stuck in a "heat-up loop" causing my CPU to fry? I had just under 30C after a whirl at 100% load (dual Prime95 for 10 mins) and stopped it to ask just in case...

Thanks
 
Well mum's taken the camera to Vegas with her, so I'm stuck with an old webcam, but hopefully these'll do for now







I do intend to clear up the mess once it'ss all installed properly, and the pump will sit under my HDD in front of my 120mm intake fan
 
Cyanide said:
It's an awful mess at the moment, but I'll try to dig out my old digital camera

Just a quick question... at what point will the cold side of the TEC get too hot and get stuck in a "heat-up loop" causing my CPU to fry? I had just under 30C after a whirl at 100% load (dual Prime95 for 10 mins) and stopped it to ask just in case...

Thanks
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hm 30c sounds warm, i would think you need a more powerful pelt or to use 2 side by side (NOT stacked). areyou using a coldplate ?
 
tickle me elmo said:
hm 30c sounds warm, i would think you need a more powerful pelt or to use 2 side by side (NOT stacked). areyou using a coldplate ?
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Actually... no... I forgot about that, is it vitally important? :confused:
 
Cyanide said:
It's an awful mess at the moment, but I'll try to dig out my old digital camera

Just a quick question... at what point will the cold side of the TEC get too hot and get stuck in a "heat-up loop" causing my CPU to fry? I had just under 30C after a whirl at 100% load (dual Prime95 for 10 mins) and stopped it to ask just in case...

Thanks
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Thats where 30C comes from :)
 
Cyanide said:
Actually... no... I forgot about that, is it vitally important? :confused:
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well back in the celeron days, i and i think everyone else used them, it was used to kinda "store" the cold. cant remember what thickness was most effective, but try things like 2,3,4 or even 5mm thick copper plate. must be big enough to cover cpu and peltier. if you want 2 pelts then you makea cold plate big enough to cover both pelts and quite thick(5mm probably) so it spreads the coldness around.
 
In my addiction to overclock recently I nearly went down the TEC route, but after much consideration I then nearly bought a second hand Promi, then decided it was just too hardcore for such little gain with my CPu what with the coldbug. Main issue for me is the electricity bill and additional noise of the meanwell PSUs. I do like the idea of TECs though being all internal etc.
 
I think people overlook water chillers personaly I think for cold bugged chips they are a work around if you build one or have one built well you can control the temps with about a 5 degree swing
 
sniper007 said:
In my addiction to overclock recently I nearly went down the TEC route, but after much consideration I then nearly bought a second hand Promi, then decided it was just too hardcore for such little gain with my CPu what with the coldbug. Main issue for me is the electricity bill and additional noise of the meanwell PSUs. I do like the idea of TECs though being all internal etc.
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Mine's running off my normal PSU - it's not an uber plet, so it's running silently and not using too much more power, just means I now have to turn the TV off whilst gaming to equalise the bill :D
 
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