Pelts and water

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OPUS1

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What about adding a pelt to a metal reservoir? Would that have an effect on the h20 temps?
 
Perhaps if you had a heatsink in the resevoir mounted to the pelt, yes it would. However, you'd need such a powerful heatsink/fan combo to cool the hot side of the pelt, that you'd do better just using the pelt on the CPU itself.
 
actually this is exactly what I am trying....waterchiller. When it is all completed everyone here will get some pictures and full details. Don't bother bringing it up you just get tons of people saying how dumb the idea is and how it won't work.
 
that you'd do better just using the pelt on the CPU itself.
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True, but putting the resovoir outside the box would eleminate any condensation problems on the board ,no?
 
I dont think so.. considering that condensation is a result of something being colder than ambient temps, that would be colder than the air temps and will cause condensation on the water block. Which in turn will cause condensation on the board.

:( One day when I have money I will go water cooling..
 
just because your water is colder than ambient doesn't guarente you have condensation. It all depends on how much moisture in the air...the dewpoint and such. But even having your res outside you still can get condensation on your tubing and block. Although your CPU should keep your block warm enough to ward it off there at least once it gets to operating temp.
 
Originally posted by thezfunk
just because your water is colder than ambient doesn't guarente you have condensation. It all depends on how much moisture in the air...the dewpoint and such. But even having your res outside you still can get condensation on your tubing and block. Although your CPU should keep your block warm enough to ward it off there at least once it gets to operating temp.
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In that case, just use a peltier + an slk900 or something. Doubtful if you'd get below-ambient temperatures, and you'd be better off noise-wise too, as you wouldn't have a pump and a radiator fan.

Edit: If you plan to use the homebrew water chiller as your *only* source of cooling the water off, it will only end up being mildly more efficient than slapping a peltier beneath whatever heatsink you use to cool down the hot side of the peltier in the first place.
 
Heres an article on it.
Overclockers.com/tips

One advantage of doing it that way is that you can use three or four small pelts to get the same cooling as one big one.
That way you can air cool the pelts without them overheating.

Luck........:D
 
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