Thermoelectric Cooling

[Solouko]

Has anyone else seen this?

it's an ordenary swiftech watercooling system that's been combined with a thermoelectric cooling system.

i was looking at watercooling solutions today and i came across it and i was reading up a little on the principal of how it all works

Thermoelectric cooling principal

when's OcUK going to get these badboys in!?!?

i mean it's useing an alectric current between dissymilar metlas to force heat conduction generating a watercooling soloution that's below ambiant air temp.

ok.. it's a bit pricy, but once you have the power supply i dont think there's any limit to how many thermoelectric sinks you can have, and they already have thermoelectric VGA coolers

 

[Solouko]

well the risk of condensation can be combatted by proper insulation, the same with removing an IHS as you expose parts of the processor that need to be sheilded from the conductive AS5 and i'm sure if you where serious enough to remove the IHS on your CPU you'd gladly go arround the edge of your GPU or your mobo with some unsulation gloop too...

and as for the heating effect.. as it says in that little info link i added in it's a fine balance between the cooling effect and the heating effect to keep the heating down you lower the operational current and increase the number of TE coolers ontop of one another

and swiftech have gone one step further and put a watercooling system ontop so the TE system only asists the watercooling making it more efficient. it's not as cheep a mod as removing an IHS to lower your temps but i think adding in a TE cooling system is just the next step once you've tried averything else.

 

[Solouko]

Unless you're VERY messy and/or extremely unlucky then you're highly unlikely to damage any components (Even a processor core as you state) by using AS5 un insulated... as stated by the manufacturer:-

Not Electrically Conductive:
Arctic Silver 5 was formulated to conduct heat, not electricity.
(While much safer than electrically conductive silver and copper greases, Arctic Silver 5 should be kept away from electrical traces, pins, and leads. While it is not electrically conductive, the compound is very slightly capacitive and could potentially cause problems if it bridges two close-proximity electrical paths.)

well i stand corrected but i didnt say that AS5 could damage the core, i said it could damage aprocessor with a removed IHS, ok, that statemet wasn't 100% correct, but if you read the sticky on IHS removal it clearly makes a point of insulating the circuitry surrounding the core, and i was under the impression that it was because AS5 was conductive.