Peltier Coolers

[Triple_A]

Hey has anybody got any experience with Peltier coolers? These would seem to be the best coolers out there - even better than water coolers.

I saw these on a web site that was selling them , and the site was literally talking you OUT of the sale due to the difficulty in installing them.

How tricky can they be to install ? - the install looks 1/10 of the simplest water cooler setup. How do they rate compared to a good water cooler?

 

[Mordy]

The Peltier cooler had to be cooled! if you install peltier you must install good hsf or even water cooling. The main problem with peltier is same as with freezers like Kryotech & Vapourchill - when you cool something below zero (not exactly,ask phisics teacher for more accurate explanation) it attracts water from air - make the m/b wet - make shortcut. If you make it work at right temp on Quake, then go to Word , or worse-suspend mode - CPU covers with ice - and KABOOM!


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[killall]

the potential risks are incredible... condensation, extra heat within your case etc...

if in doubt blame microsoft...

 

[Schmide]

Peltier’s suck, literally. Despite the fact that they have the ability to suck the heat off the processor, they also suck power out of your PSU. If you want to cool an Athlon your going to need at least a 120 watts worth of pelt. Still they’re kina quiet if you can look past all the extra noise from the equipment needed to dissipate all the heat they produce.

Yup. I can easily see how someone could have no trouble talking you out of it.

Schmide

 

[Kio_Liex]

If i'm not completly wrong, then pure H2O can't conduct electricity... but the water that forms one, and around, the peltier, is that pure H2O?

And if it isn't then why not just make some sort of isolation like vapochill have done....?

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[CALV]

What peeps normally do when using pelts is to insulate around the base of the cpu/socket with silicon or similar so prevent moisture getting into places we dont want it. some very succesful overclocking has been achieved using pelts, although as mentioned, a hefty pelt and also a hefty psu are needed for athlons due to the large amount of heat they produce.A pelt has a hot side and a cold side, the hot side needs to be cooled or the pelt will die, a normal hsf isnt usually enough to cool this so thats why watercooling is usually used with peltiers.
Pure water isnt conductive, its all the minerals etc in the water that make it so, I dont know how pure the water produced would be, but I wouldnt trust it not to conduct/corrode.



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[Kio_Liex]

hmmm......

that was what i tought...

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[Guest]

Hey i got ahold of one i think 150Watt with a regular looking HSF on it and installed that sucker...turned on my machine and before i could get into the bios to see what temp i was running it locked up and i smelled "HOT" electronics!!!!!! Intsantly yanked the power and hoped/begged/pleaded with the powers that be than my mostly new 1 gig athlon wasn't toast!!!!! I got one thing to say:STAY AWAY FROM THEM! there are other safer and cheaper ways to go........

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