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Originally Posted by DNA
One of the primary justifications for using phase-change to cool high thermal load CPUs is to achieve a better overclock at a lower Vcore. To carry that reasoning a step further is why a high Qmax peltier is beneficial based on ones anticipated thermal load.
One case in point, an AMD X2 4800 running at a conservative overclock of 2.8Ghz with a Vcore of 1.5 would produce a thermal load of ~153 watts. I doubt that a 270W Qmax device would allow one to reach those levels.
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Whats the point of running it at a lower Vcore if you are gonna peltier it? If it does the same OC on water with a higher Vcore, why go through the trouble?
The whole point is being able to overclock higher, not volt lower.