I was reading on some other forums and wanted to know what the general consensus here was on sandwiching a waterblock between two pelts to cool down the water in a water cooling setup.
Assume you do this right after the rad(thus the water has lost most of its heat, since a rad can only cool to ambient).
Assume you use two 80W pelts that only use up 8amps and will run at 75% efficiency on a 12V line.
And then you put a pelt on the top and on the bottom of a waterblock like this
http://www.frozencpu.com/cgi-bin/fr.../ex-blc-37.html
so the water travels through it and gets cooled down, comes out, and goes to the cpu parts.
What are your thoughts? I was wondering if one 172W pelt on a 12V line would be better, but I thought two pelts would increase surface area and cool it better.
Of course you'll need to throw a heatsink/fan on each of the 80W pelts but a heatsink/fan can cool an 80W pelt@75%(even at 100%).
How would you stick a pelt on both sides? Would stacking two 80W pelts be better?
Feedback appreciated. Thanks.
Assume you do this right after the rad(thus the water has lost most of its heat, since a rad can only cool to ambient).
Assume you use two 80W pelts that only use up 8amps and will run at 75% efficiency on a 12V line.
And then you put a pelt on the top and on the bottom of a waterblock like this
http://www.frozencpu.com/cgi-bin/fr.../ex-blc-37.html
so the water travels through it and gets cooled down, comes out, and goes to the cpu parts.
What are your thoughts? I was wondering if one 172W pelt on a 12V line would be better, but I thought two pelts would increase surface area and cool it better.
Of course you'll need to throw a heatsink/fan on each of the 80W pelts but a heatsink/fan can cool an 80W pelt@75%(even at 100%).
How would you stick a pelt on both sides? Would stacking two 80W pelts be better?
Feedback appreciated. Thanks.