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Watercooling + Peltier setup?

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I've finally decided to hang up the Nautilus on my current machine and go with a more efficient, powerful, and hopefully quieter solution. It doesn't handle the heat from my stock Kentsfield well enough, and I can't overclock at all.

In any case, I'm looking into pairing a Peltier cooler with a water cooling system, and I was hoping there might be some insights as to how to go about that, what parts are recommended for use for the best cooling versus noise versus cost. All the guides I have found include introducing grease into the pin holes for the CPU to combat condensation, however Kentsfields don't HAVE those holes... and I have yet to find a coherent guide as to how to manage this on this kind of system.

I was thinking a triple rad, Fuzion waterblock (or one of those dominators I've been hearing about) with a D5 pump and a mounted reservoir. Of course, with a pelt in between the block and the cpu.

Any help, big or small would be greatly appreciated, I don't trust this naultilus with my quad core anymore.

The system setup is the same as below. Thanks!

Edit: I forgot to mention that I would like to be able to include two 8800 GTX cards into the loop later on.
 
Your going to need two loops if you want to cool a TECooled CPU and two 8800 GTXs!
 
TECs are power hungry, and to find one that will cool a Q6600+ the money would be better invested into a chiller or phase for a little bit more.
 
It would cost a whole lot of money to build a TEC loop that could handle just the quad-core, not even to mention the 8800GTX's. Do yourself a favor and forget about TEC's, they just can't keep up with the heatload of today's components.
 
phew, quick and similar responses.

Alright, well phase coolers seem just a tad too expensive and noisy, not to mention I don't know how I would get one to reach my CPU in the P180 case that I have. Unless there's something that I don't know about, in which case set me straight!

What else do you suggest for a Kentsfield at least? Two nautilus units in and it's just not cutting it.
 
I've got a CPU only loop on my Q6600. Apogee GT bowed, DDC2 w/ Petra's Top, and an MCR320. It keeps it around 62C loaded at 3.65ghz.
 
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