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TEC vs water

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ChaseJ86

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I'm going to upgrade the cooling on my asus 9800xt and can't decide wheather to use water or tec cooling. I only found one review site for tec, and although it took up 5 pci slots, I kinda like it. Any opinions? Or links to sites with reviews?

Are there any other ways of cooling my card, besides water or TEC?
 
since the TEC would make the chip very cold, the copper traces would become cold, and so would the memory chips. however, tecs area HUGE risk.
 
Originally posted by rayman2k2
since the TEC would make the chip very cold, the copper traces would become cold, and so would the memory chips. however, tecs area HUGE risk.
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Huge risk? Does it pose a threat to the video card? Or anything to do with condensation... atleast that's what i've read can happen.
 
Well lets see you could blow up the card in a jif if the condensation got on any copper traces causing a surge of electricty frying the card instantly .. and maybe in turn frying your mobo .. and in turn causing you motherboard to fry the cpu ..yadda yadda .. WHENEVER you use a TEC be ready for the worse .. i am not kidding i have seen great overclocks turn into nightmares with them .. i have seen a moron bring in TEC that had been flipped (causing the hot side to have contact with the CPU ..it burned a hole threw the card completely cause the idiot that did it left it on overnight) for instance people who use phase exchange cooling have to deal with Condensation in a very big way .. just alittle bit is all it takes and ..bye bye computer .. not to mention TEC's req a completely seprate power supply (unless you are a well trained Electrician which i doubt ..you could build your own) so that will run about 200 dollars extra .. just stick with water .. its cheaper ..not safer by any mean's but water setups are cake to do now and as long as you make sure everything you setup is right and the clips on the hose's are extra tight.. than leaks are very unlikey. But if you MUST try TEC ..you are warned :D
 
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