w/c under ambient temps

Acid_death69

Acid_death69

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Hey all
I was having an arguement with one of my tutors at uni today about a liquid cooled power mac G5. He said that it can go under ambient temps regardless of what the room ambient is.
I was thought this was close to impossible unless your using something like thermoelectric magnets like coolIT products use.
Am i wrong? i looked at the w/c'ing system on a power mac g5 and as far as i could tell it is a good w/c'ing system but not that good to go under ambient temps.
 
In any standard watercooling system thats using air moving over the fins of the radiator for cooling and doesn't have a peltier you can't get below ambient temps.

I do hear tho that the current generation G5 uses thermoelectric cooling which would allow it to get slightly below ambient.
 
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ah yerr jus refreashed, i looked at the blue prints and i couldnt find them on it. Things is the G5 is a fair few years old, did'nt realise it could have something like thermoelectrical components on it.
 
Well I'm no expert on the subject and going on 3rd hand information but I believe its only the current top of the line model that has it.
 
Yeah to reinforce the point above if you aren't using active cooler like TEC's or phase change it is scientifically impossible to get your proc below the temperature of the air in the room. To the best of my knowledge, the G5 does my not use any form of active cooling.

-Barrolde
 
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