Peltier Cooling

[TheGeek]

I found a peltier cooler at the danger den store and thought about it as a viable cooling option. do i need a special heatsink or anything? link

 

[CheesePoofs]

You'll need a REALLY BIG heatsink, or watercooling. Probably watercooling. IIRC, peltiers use so much power that the heatsink has to disipate 4 times as much heat as it normally would have to, but you get to keep the CPU nice and chilly.

 

[Tiamat]

you need to insulate the area were the peltier goes because it will frost. If you look at some of the dangerden kits, one of them has a peltier watercooled.

 

[Painman]

I played with pelts back in the P3 coppermine period. You need to seal and insulate the crap out of everything around the CPU or water will condense and find its way around the CPU socket. You're going to have to seal and insulate the back of the motherboard around that area too. Then, you'll still get condensation on a humid day.

Like Cheesepoofs said, you're also gonna need a REALLY big HSF or water to unload the heat from a pelt that's big enough to absorb the heat of a modern CPU... 100-120 watts is probably the power range you'd need for a pelt now. 40 watts was enough for a PIII 600 Coppermine.

For the OC gains pelt cooling brings vs. the headaches... I say not worth it.

 

[mindwreck]

peltiers have been phased by phase change cooling. I had a peliter on my old PIII. I got my peltier for really cheap so i figured why not try it for fun. Insulation is a MUST and poviding power just for the peltier means have another psu in the computer. Insulationg it usually requires foaming up every little spot and putting dielectric compound in the socket to prevent condensation in there also

bottomline, its not worth it...