ok, if you dont know what a peltier is, its a little square thing that gets rly cold on one side and rly hot on the other.... i was thinking of making a liquid cooling system, but throw a shit load of peltiers in... and use fans to get rid of all the hot air... good idea? bad? suggestions???
edit, here is a vid about how bad ass this shit is http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3x-wxLEfLEQ
http://www.engadget.com/2010/11/23/digital-storms-liquid-chilled-gaming-pc-includes-4-6ghz-core-i7/
Think it's pretty expensive to get it done.
Seems like it works kinda like a fridge. If you got the money, knock yourself out.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PtufuXLvOok
this is still my favorite pc cooling set up.
the only bad thing about it besides failing fans is that it will generate moisture around the CPU area if the temps of the cold area was below the ambient(room)temperature so be careful not to damage ur Motherboard
Samurai is right, Peltiers make for dangerous condensation.
hmm, well... i guess i wrote this when i was tired and didnt make my self that clear.... atm im building a mineral oil tank at school, so im thinking of incorporating a peltier cooling loop.
there are a few problems, like how to get a power supply to power 3 peltiers, i have found supplies with variable voltage and amperage, which would be ideal, but the problem is, they are all under 5 amps,.... the peltiers im looking at are 8.5 amp, maximum watts 127.5. and hey operate from 0 to 15 volts. is it possible to use a cheapo 450 watt psu or something???
here is a rough idea of what i was thinking, its 2:25 here... and im too lazy to make a good design with accurate measurements in a real CAD software... so here is a shitty google sketchup mock up thing:
[img]http://img34.imageshack.us/img34/1535/45949117.png[/img]
edit: the chambers would have heatsinks on them, being cooled by air (2 fans each) and would be blowing the air upward, so the bottom most peltier would be the coolest... the hot air would be ducted out a window or something....
edit #2: who ever said it would be expensive:
http://cgi.ebay.com/Regular-Power-Supply-350W-output-DC-12V-30A-Ham-Radio-/140387542745?pt=UK_ConsumerElectronics_SpecialistRadioEquipment_SM&hash=item20afbfe6d9 --- 350 watt, 30 amp, 12 volt power supply (24 dollars plus shipping)
http://cgi.ebay.com/Pack-5-91-2W-Thermoelectric-Cooler-Peltier-TEC-12V-/270661823347?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item3f04b3ab73 --- 5 peltiers (91 watts each, i will be using 3) [25 dollars + shipping)
case materials --- accrilic sheets / sheet aluminum, supplied by my school, but i will give my teacher 20 bucks to be nice :)
milling / plastic welding --- also, all done at school, by me.... so that's not going to cost anything but time.
so far its cheaper than a store bought case, and 60 dollars in mineral oil will be cheaper than an after market cooler.
looks awesome a lot of work but i bet it be fun and worth it at the end better post pictures of it finalized
[quote]but i will give my teacher 20 bucks to be nice :)[/quote]
looks like someones getting bonus points
Looks very sound to me. the only 2 things that you need to worry about are insulation and sealing. if you keeping the unit chilled its going to be like a cold glass of water and sweat constantly with out insulation. secondly you need to make sure you weld the plastics together as mineral oil is very good at penetrating. having said that its a wicked cool idea.
mickeydeath said:
looks awesome a lot of work but i bet it be fun and worth it at the end better post pictures of it finalized
[quote]but i will give my teacher 20 bucks to be nice :)[/quote]
looks like someones getting bonus points
lol, i definitely will, we are making key chains in class right now with the cnc mill, so i dont want to use up a shit load of materials, so any that i use from the classroom ill give the aprox. value to the teacher. on monday i will make some cad drawings up for all the different parts, screen shot them, and post them here.... if i have time ill make an exploded view in solid works.
damn, i love my school
For what? Venomous X can get any CPU over 4 GHz with push/pull fan config.
RuffeDK said:
For what? Venomous X can get any CPU over 4 GHz with push/pull fan config.
because im bored and i can..... any questions?