Alternative to Air Cooling

[wxrkny]

I wanted to know your opinions on alternatives to air cooling(not water) such as thermo-electric cooling. Are these worth their 100+ price tags.

 

[boyRacer]

you still need a noisy heatsink/fan to cool it... very effective if you combine it with water cooling.

 

[InlineFive]

How about a VapoChill? That's only in the $299 range last I checked but then again you get -15c.

-Por

 

[paperfist]

Originally posted by: PorBleemo
How about a VapoChill? That's only in the $299 range last I checked but then again you get -15c.

-Por

Wow that's all that costs? My water cooling is going to cost about that for ambient temps. Hmmm

 

[boyRacer]

Originally posted by: PorBleemo
How about a VapoChill? That's only in the $299 range last I checked but then again you get -15c.

-Por

I dunno where you could find it at that price but all the prices i've seen has it at $600+ for the base model and $800+ for the top model.

Here, and here

 

[George Powell]

that does sound very cheap, it would be worth me buying in the states and then going back to the UK, would pretty much pay for my airfare compared to our prices!!!!

 

[BaboonGuy]

how quiet are vapochills anyways?

 

[boyRacer]

i highly doubt you can get it at that price... unless he's taking about waterchill... from the same company.

 

[sandorski]

I once saw a webpage of one guys interesting cooling alternative. He used chilled coal oil! He basically put his system in a foam box, filled it with coal oil until his system components were submerged, used a pump for circulation of the oil, and something(don't recall what) to chill the oil. Of course such a thing is rather bizarre and a potential mess, but it was quite an interesting cooling Mod. Besides the pump or pumps that one would need, there would be no noise, the whole system would be cooled, and problems from dust could be eliminated.

 

[GAZZA]

Originally posted by: sandorski
I once saw a webpage of one guys interesting cooling alternative. He used chilled coal oil! He basically put his system in a foam box, filled it with coal oil until his system components were submerged, used a pump for circulation of the oil, and something(don't recall what) to chill the oil. Of course such a thing is rather bizarre and a potential mess, but it was quite an interesting cooling Mod. Besides the pump or pumps that one would need, there would be no noise, the whole system would be cooled, and problems from dust could be eliminated.

I've seen a few discussions on the same subject over at OC forums using mineral oil and other variants.

 

[0roo0roo]

only things that work are water and refridgeration. peltiers suck.