Thermoelectric Cooling

Hi All, 

 

has anyone used a TEC syatem before?

 

http://www.swiftech.com/mcw6500-775t.aspx

 

I am intrigued as I was on the lookout of a way to lower coolant temps. I had thought about using a heat exchanger on the rad hooked up to a refrigerated unit. What scares and excites me is the disclaimer that CPU temps can drop well below freezing at idle! And that measures must be taken to combat condensation.

 

Anyone with first hand experience of such witchcraft?

I have some limited experience TEC cooling. I have a TEC based CPU air cooler called the Ultra ChillTEC. Are there any particular questions you have?

you will need Conformal coating to protect the electronic surfaces from condensation

A jar of Vaseline around the subzero areas will also work as well

vaseline can break down, better off using dielectric grease

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silicone_grease

Ello, been busy so apologies for the lateness of the reply. That's very kind. The one you have looks awesome but i can't find a 2011v3 one. I have a H110 at the moment which gives decent temps for sure but i wanted something between a pot of liquid nitrogen and a closed loop water cooling solution. I can't be doing with custom loop cooling just yet (brand new parts and i wouldn't want to fuck them all up with a leak on my first custom loop build).

 

What CPU do you have under it and what kind of temps do you get at idle and under load?

 

thanks again

Well currently its sitting in my closet it was originally going to go on my APU (before I built my water cooling loop) but the AMD bracket some how broke so I really can't give you any numbers on performance. TEC tower heatsinks still exist so you can give a tower a try

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16835857001

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First of all, i don't have one of these TEC-Coolers but i know how this would work.

So you have to keep in mind, that peltierelements have a very very low efficiency. I think it's unter 5 % or something so you have to spend much energy, wich has to be lead away by your watercoolingunit.