Thermal Electric CPU cooler VS CPU cooler

It performs about as good as the Monsoon TEC cooler... not QUITE as good, but it's a hell of a lot quieter.

That Monsoon "revs" like an engine, which is super annoying.
 
The Vigor looks similiar to my Titan Amanda cooler and that's doing a great job here on my Q6600 and did a fantastic one when I still had my E6400@3.6 Ghz.
 
Jadawin said:
The Vigor looks similiar to my Titan Amanda cooler and that's doing a great job here on my Q6600 and did a fantastic one when I still had my E6400@3.6 Ghz.
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What are your temps like? The Monsoon II got a mediocre [H] review.
 
Well, if it's not really the same as the Amanda, then my temps won't help much, at 3.33Ghz with 1.525v, my Quad will be in the middle 80s after a long time of 4x Prime or the new OCCT, according to CoreTemp. I'm not so sure about CoreTemp though, because the latest beta of Speedfan claims to read the temps directly, too - and is always around 10C less.

Edit: I just had a look at the Monsoon II review. Well, it says it's got excellent temps, so that's out of the question. The cons are the montage, which I didn't find very difficult with the Amanda, but that's probably a matter of personal perception. Annoying fan oscillation, which I never had with the Amanda, the size... well I had a Scythe Ninja Plus and it's not really that much bigger... and the 50W it draws. Well, that's the TEC, can't have a TEC that doesn't draw power ;) So if that is all that made the Monsoon II come out mediocre, it wouldn't stop me.
 
I just got my Monsoon II on monday and so far the only wall I hit is my mainboard will not go over 500 fsb... i dont notice the noise as much since i have 2 120 mm fans in the case doing about 80 cfm of air..... it's loud but it's cool!!!! my e6300 doesnt get past 53c on full load.... this thing is soo much better than anything else i've used so far.
 
So, far I like the monsoon, I have been able to achieve 3ghz w/ prime stability for 24hrs+..
I recently removed the IHS, but before I removed it, core temp showed 49C on Core 0, and 60C on the other. My temps don't go over 50C on either core now.
The fans spinning up and down did annoy me, but I found that the control module doesn't monitor the fan speed, so I just ran my powered my fans with the motherboard.
In summary, the major advantage is it can keep the temps consistent.
I would like to see a more efficient design, with a ~100watt thermo module.
 
after 175 hours of the monsoon II running it's even better once my AS5 settled now I got 3.6GHZ on my bad boy...... I wonder if I'll hit 4 with a e6600????? I'm debateing on it now.
 
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