Adding a peltier to water cooling?

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Hey guys, wanted to pick your brains on an idea i have. what about using a peltier ?

my idea is to add another block to your cooling loops but where the block would usually go on a GPU or CPU or other heat generating component, it would be attached to the cold side of the peltier and a massive air heatsink tower on the hot side.

how i imagine this is that the peltier and corresponding heatsink fan could either be manually controlled or temperature controlled (up to you).

say in cases of  benchmarking or heavy gaming you can flip it on and get the benefits of reaching lower temps than your ambient temps.

i imagine a setup like this would be rather large cause you now need space for cpu heatsink tower or something to dissipate the heat of the peltier's hotside.

what do you guys think? wonder if there would be any need to environmentally seal the electronics from condensation. but if you have it set up right i think you wouldnt need to as long as your temps down go down too far below ambient.

 

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Well, you're adding even more heat, requiring a cooler for the Peltier, so I see it as no better than just running a single heatsink, or block, on your CPU alone; looks a lot cleaner, and performs well enough, for me. If I want extreme cooling, I would go for a water chiller, or a straight up phase changer.

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yeah, i was  thinking of mounting the system outside the case, like how some muscle cars have the super charger coming out of the hood lol.

this way the extra heat you are generating isnt finding it's way back into your system.

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Don't get me wrong, they offer some interesting cooling potentials, but they exist in the relativistic, physical world, and that heat energy still exists, on the opposite side of the TEC. Therefore, to cool the TEC, you need a hefty cooler, and if you have that cooler already, save yourself the diminishing returns and put it directly on your CPU.

 

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what other ways to overcome the ambient limit? phase change i guess.