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laxman · 11-08-2005, 04:39 PM

well lets think about of some numbers (rough and overestmated).

Heat in watts in the case to be removed:
80 to 90 watts from GPU
10 to 30 watts from NB
~120 watts from PSU
>100 from everything else
total: ~340 watts

This means that you will need more then 425 watts case cooling (Tecs are only around 80% effient). Although there is good news about you situation that if you barfridge is truely air tight then it will contain most the sound and will make it alot easier to TEC cool.

What I tried to show (gimp didnt really agree with me) is large heatsink with a tray under is to catch condensation with two fans (top pic). In the lower pic I showed your case, which is huge as I undrstand, with all the unused space filled with insulation. If you do this then you ability to cool the air will be much greater as the tecs will have to cool less air. Also this greatly reduce to almost nil the amount of sound. Finally I would suggest that you use at least 700 watts of TEC cooling power, 3 325 watt ones should be fine.

11-08-2005, 04:39 PM	#14
laxman Cooling Neophyte Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: evanston Posts: 41	well lets think about of some numbers (rough and overestmated). Heat in watts in the case to be removed: 80 to 90 watts from GPU 10 to 30 watts from NB ~120 watts from PSU >100 from everything else total: ~340 watts This means that you will need more then 425 watts case cooling (Tecs are only around 80% effient). Although there is good news about you situation that if you barfridge is truely air tight then it will contain most the sound and will make it alot easier to TEC cool. What I tried to show (gimp didnt really agree with me) is large heatsink with a tray under is to catch condensation with two fans (top pic). In the lower pic I showed your case, which is huge as I undrstand, with all the unused space filled with insulation. If you do this then you ability to cool the air will be much greater as the tecs will have to cool less air. Also this greatly reduce to almost nil the amount of sound. Finally I would suggest that you use at least 700 watts of TEC cooling power, 3 325 watt ones should be fine.