12v 6A Pelter
 

Ok I got hold of a Peltier thats has the following specs:

12V
6A
51.4W
67c max temp on heat side (Not to sure of this)

Now I'm totally new to Peltiers and what the ultimate goal is to achieve a silent system,

I'm not looking to get crazy low temps or crazy overclocks (Although I'm currently running a Athlon XP 2500 at 2.3Ghz) I just want a cool CPU so that I don't have to drop back to stock speeds when summer hits!

So I'm wondering how much use this is to my cooling solution?

PS

I might be new here but If you frequent OC forums you'll know I'm a veteran of case moding and OCing just new to this extreme cool stuff!

that peltier is too weak to cool your cpu. maybe your video card or the northbridge. granted, i'm no peltier expert. i'm not a watercooling expert ofr that mater either, but you're going to need at least 126w pelt to cool well and overclock.

Unfortunately, I doubt you'd end up with a functioning CPU if you used that pelt. A rule of thumb I heard is to have at least twice the wattage of pelt as your heat source in order to get any cooling whatsoever. Say your CPU puts out 80W. You'd need more than 160W, which means that the lowest model I know of would be a 172W peltier.

Remember, though, that is a rule of thumb, NOT a replacement for experience or real design engineering. Peeps who pelt their CPU nowadays go straight for the throat and seem to prefer watercooled 226W pelts. Even better would be using chilled coolant for the backside of the pelt, but that's fairly extreme.

Remember that an effective pelt will be extremely power hungry. Be prepared for your electric company to send you love letters.

Yeah I think the only use that peltier will have is for cooling my northbridge I found a great program .... altittle out of date but with a slight modification will work out the wattage need on a pelt to cool a PC..... for my needs (Don't want frost just cold) I would need a 126Watt peltier on my Athlon.

You should never use a pelt rated below your CPU output - in that scenario it;s just a heater. A 126W should be fine for a 2500+ though.
BTW, new GFX cards are running at 60W+ (more for the geforce 6800).

Hey Fareast you have a link to that program?