has anyone used thermoengine socket 370 coolers as northbridge cooler?

[jarthel]

back in the early 2000, these were famous for starting the use of "heatpipe" technology in CPU cooling (from what I remember).

I'm just wondering what is there performance when used as northbridge coolers.

If you are using one as a northbridge cooler, please reply:
- with feedback on performance
- if you are using the fan it came with

I want to run them fanless in an HTPC.

thanks for the help 🙂

 

[wwswimming]

if you're talking about thermoelectric coolers, you need to be aware of how they
work. they are far from 100% efficient - in order to cool one end of the device,
the other end sheds as many watts as are removed from the cool end - plus some.

so the hot end ends up heating up whatever system it's a part of. if the hot end
is in the same airspace as the cool end, you need extra air-flow to remove the
additional heat output from the TEC device, in addition to removing the heat
from the device its cooling.

in most cases you're better off just using a heatsink on the northbridge and making
sure you have decent ventilation with quiet fans.

 

[Zap]

Originally posted by: wwswimming
if you're talking about thermoelectric coolers

No, this is a heatsink similar to some of Intel's units with the fins radiating outward from the middle. The middle was apparently some kind of heatpipe, though there are reports that after the initial reviews and first few batches, the company cheapened it by not including the heatpipe.

As for whether it would work, sure it would... as long as a way is found to mount it.