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Originally Posted by JamesAvery22
Yeah I know I was jokin  Should have put sarcasm tags sorry. There have been some really large lab tec coolers of the same design on ebay though, can't find any right now =\ |
This system uses 4 - 72W TEC's wired together in series (so, they are making 1/4 the output per TEC?) mounted on a 92x92mm heatsink and has a high-speed (3000-4000RPM) 92mm fan sucking air from inside the computer through the heatsink to the back of the computer for one "chiller". This computer has a second "chiller" mounted on the top as well. This unit can cool the CPU and GPU to roughly the same temperatures as an air-cooled CPU/GPU under-load and to around ambient while idle. These readings come from the software readings in the motherboard software.
I do not know why there is such a big difference in temperature except to speculate that the inefficiency of the TEC's aren't capable of dissipating a full-load and have a "breaking point" where they start to act more "inefficient" than efficient.
