water cooling w/ peltier?

Hellzarmy · 05-January-05, 04:31 PM

just wonder, any of you guys runnign a WC unit and a peltier?

how do you have it setup?

are you running the peltier on the CPU or do you have it cooling your radiator?

im running a WC now, but tossing around the idea off adding a few peltiers to my radiator, but not sure how to really mount them to get the best cooling for em.

i know the logical idea would be to put the peltier on the CPU, but i dont want to worry about the risk of condensation getting on the board. but i dont think i could really run a peltier on a radiator either.

thanks,

Hellz

Slider · 05-January-05, 04:34 PM

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Originally Posted by Hellzarmy


	just wonder, any of you guys runnign a WC unit and a peltier? how do you have it setup? are you running the peltier on the CPU or do you have it cooling your radiator? im running a WC now, but tossing around the idea off adding a few peltiers to my radiator, but not sure how to really mount them to get the best cooling for em. i know the logical idea would be to put the peltier on the CPU, but i dont want to worry about the risk of condensation getting on the board. but i dont think i could really run a peltier on a radiator either. thanks, Hellz

Your best bet is to put the pelt in the reservoir, and chill the water. If you have it on the CPU, and the pelt dies, then you have a nice insulator between your waterblock and your cpu resulting in a nice and toasty cpu.

putwig · 05-January-05, 05:11 PM

Pelt cooling is a mixed bag. They are fun to play with, but generally are more of a pain then they are worth. Also, pelts are hard to power and need a seperate (usually expensive) PSU.

The best cooling would be to place the cold side of the pelt on your proc, and strap a water block to the hot side. This works really well, but you must take great steps to protect everything from condensation and frost. Also, as Slider said .... if the pelt dies your rig is toast.

I have never seen a pelt cooled rad, and frankly I can't really see it working well. Plus, how are you going to cool all the pelts plastered all over your rad?

The pelt cooled res is an interesting idea but again I don't think it would work really well. The water spends precious little in the res ....... certainly not enough to get "chilled". You would need to some how disperse the cold over a large surface area to have any impact at all. Also, if the res was large enough to allow water to "hang out and chill" the ambient air would heat it up way faster than the pelt could cool it. Plus, you still need to cool the hot side of the pelt somehow.

There is an interesting approach found here:

http://guides.pcapex.com/water_cooli...er_chiller.php

However, for vaious reasons results have been mixed. See here:

http://forums.pcapex.com/showthread....eltier+chiller

At the end of the day I think that if you are going to bother with a pelt it should go on the proc. I wouldn't bother.

By the way, there are tons of TEC discussion on the forums, just use the "search" feature.

05-January-05, 04:31 PM		#1 (permalink)
Hellzarmy Banned	water cooling w/ peltier? just wonder, any of you guys runnign a WC unit and a peltier? how do you have it setup? are you running the peltier on the CPU or do you have it cooling your radiator? im running a WC now, but tossing around the idea off adding a few peltiers to my radiator, but not sure how to really mount them to get the best cooling for em. i know the logical idea would be to put the peltier on the CPU, but i dont want to worry about the risk of condensation getting on the board. but i dont think i could really run a peltier on a radiator either. thanks, Hellz

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05-January-05, 05:11 PM		#3 (permalink)
putwig Dr. Hydro Pimp	Pelt cooling is a mixed bag. They are fun to play with, but generally are more of a pain then they are worth. Also, pelts are hard to power and need a seperate (usually expensive) PSU. The best cooling would be to place the cold side of the pelt on your proc, and strap a water block to the hot side. This works really well, but you must take great steps to protect everything from condensation and frost. Also, as Slider said .... if the pelt dies your rig is toast. I have never seen a pelt cooled rad, and frankly I can't really see it working well. Plus, how are you going to cool all the pelts plastered all over your rad? The pelt cooled res is an interesting idea but again I don't think it would work really well. The water spends precious little in the res ....... certainly not enough to get "chilled". You would need to some how disperse the cold over a large surface area to have any impact at all. Also, if the res was large enough to allow water to "hang out and chill" the ambient air would heat it up way faster than the pelt could cool it. Plus, you still need to cool the hot side of the pelt somehow. There is an interesting approach found here: http://guides.pcapex.com/water_cooli...er_chiller.php However, for vaious reasons results have been mixed. See here: http://forums.pcapex.com/showthread....eltier+chiller At the end of the day I think that if you are going to bother with a pelt it should go on the proc. I wouldn't bother. By the way, there are tons of TEC discussion on the forums, just use the "search" feature.