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Unread 08-29-2001, 09:48 AM   #2
Nordic
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Join Date: Mar 2001
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I'd skip the peltiers altogether.

I don't wish to let you down. Perhaps you know what you're getting into:

The additional cost for the peltiers and power supplies for the peltiers don't justify the small performance increase you are going to get. Nevermind the complexity and the increased likelyhood of running into problems (condensation is just one of them).

Also, using peltiers on a hot TBird requires that you use multiple high wattage peltiers. There are plenty of discussions going on in forums and I think there is an article coming up on procooling about the very subject. The usefulness of using this method to overclock a high wattage TBird is questionable. You should be looking at a phase changer instead.

Additionally if you want a quiet system you will not get that when you have to cool all of the peltiers you're running, remember that the heat produced from the peltiers will be much greater than the heat produced by the silicon chips themselves.

Simply watercooling the silicon requires much less cooling power but gets you 99% of the way.

All this is of course: My humble opionion.
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