My 2 cents revisited

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I started a thread in computer Hardware section but it is better suited here.

simple put:

You could make a nice watercooled case like this:

take a good water cooler block and slap that on the cpu, run a couple of lines to your vid card or what ever else you want to be cooled. have a small water resevior with a pump inside it and place it towards the back. To cool the water you would use a large peltier against the back off the resevior. cut a hole in case and attach a large custom heatsink to the back of the peltier. Attach a large slow moving fan to the heatsink. clean up the hole and make the heatsink look like its a natural part of the of the outside of the case. Presto: a water cooled case with no external resevior or gigantic radiator. It'll run quiet with all the heat emptying onto the outside of the computer were it belongs.


If you want to super-cool it just use a heavier duty peltier (like one used in a car cigeratte lighter powered beer cooler) then insulate the resevior/lines/cooling block with somesort of rubberized spray-on foam stuff.

I think it may be better idea to do it thisway than to put the peltier element against the cpu, because if the peltier was to fail your cpu won't fry immedietly.

you could then create a nice little desktop computer all quiet and innocent with a super-cooled interior. eh?

 

[Blain]

You would have to make sure and insulate the lines, water block and resevior to avoid the problem of condensation.

 

[Blain]

Here's a water/peltier idea similar to yours. He just goes about it from a different angle.