TEC Liquid Cooling Enthusiast Rig

[daibido]

I’m looking to build a Raven rv01 modded computer case enthusiast gaming rig. Problem is a matter of heat and cooling. I was looking into a TEC liquid hybrid cooling system. Just in case of it being an unknown, its where a heat sink uses both the TEC method of cooling and a Liquid heat transportation and dissipation method. The problem is I can’t find any prefabricated Heat sinks for CPU socket LGA 1366, or for any GPU’s, specifically the Fermi GTX 480. If there are none, that it becomes a matter of making the appropriate heat sink, which with liquid cooling in the mix is unwise; so if I need to make this hybrid, where do I get the a base plate and a large enough TEC pad to put between the Liquid cooling heat sink?

 

[just a noob]

A TEC cannot cool an i7, it's as simple as that, as well as fermi, just because the TEC might say 320 watts, that's how much it consumes, not how much it moves

 

[sniperchang]

A TEC cannot cool an i7, it's as simple as that, as well as fermi, just because the TEC might say 320 watts, that's how much it consumes, not how much it moves

So why can't a TEC be used? If you find a TEC that can transfer enough heat, even if it produces alot of heat itself, and you have a good water cooling system and a PSU that supports all this, what's the problem?

 

[bomberboysk]

A TEC cannot cool an i7, it's as simple as that, as well as fermi, just because the TEC might say 320 watts, that's how much it consumes, not how much it moves

Cheap ones are rated for how much they consume, better ones from say, ppc's are rated for Qmax. They cool about 50% of what they draw though.

So why can't a TEC be used? If you find a TEC that can transfer enough heat, even if it produces alot of heat itself, and you have a good water cooling system and a PSU that supports all this, what's the problem?

Pelts are horribly ineffecient, for direct die cooling they dont work very well(best to be run in a chilled loop, but even then they arent great), you need a dedicated power supply generally as peltiers are not usually rated for 12v, but closer to 15-20v.

 

[sniperchang]

Pelts are horribly ineffecient, for direct die cooling they dont work very well(best to be run in a chilled loop, but even then they arent great), you need a dedicated power supply generally as peltiers are not usually rated for 12v, but closer to 15-20v.

I agree that peltiers are inefficient, and the fact that they don't work well for direct die cooling makes sense. But, if Qmax was high enough, wouldn't there be some extra cooling? (despite the fact that the computer would produce alot more heat)

My point was just a noob was saying that a pelt just wouldn't work. But I'm sure it would, but it wouldn't work well, like you were saying.

 

[just a noob]

I agree that peltiers are inefficient, and the fact that they don't work well for direct die cooling makes sense. But, if Qmax was high enough, wouldn't there be some extra cooling? (despite the fact that the computer would produce alot more heat)

My point was just a noob was saying that a pelt just wouldn't work. But I'm sure it would, but it wouldn't work well, like you were saying.

I should have said it would work, but it would be so horribly inefficient that there is no real point in it, if you ran it as a chiller, I'm sure your electricity bill wouldn't make it worth it for the extra degrees cooler your cpu is

 

[bomberboysk]

I should have said it would work, but it would be so horribly inefficient that there is no real point in it, if you ran it as a chiller, I'm sure your electricity bill wouldn't make it worth it for the extra degrees cooler your cpu is

Only place i would run a TEC is if you want good benching temps on a budget, and i wouldnt do it 24/7. Otherwise, tec's are a complete waste(although i'd take a nice SS over TEC's).