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wbedard · 09-21-2002, 11:01 AM

Having read through quite a bit of watercooling material over the recent months, I have noticed that many people are using the WB+TEC setup on their cores and are getting very good temperatures in doing so. While I have read a few cases where the TECs have failed and things have gotten correspondingly ugly, I have not read where anyone has come up with a fault-tolerant design to preserve the CPU if the TEC fails. My understanding is if that happens, then the TEC acts as an insulator which causes the CPU to undergo heath death in short order. I know that software such as Motherboard Monitor can shut things down if it senses a dangerous temp but is that currently the "state of the art" solution?

09-21-2002, 11:01 AM	#1
wbedard Cooling Neophyte Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: Maryland Posts: 6	TECs and fault-tolerant design. Having read through quite a bit of watercooling material over the recent months, I have noticed that many people are using the WB+TEC setup on their cores and are getting very good temperatures in doing so. While I have read a few cases where the TECs have failed and things have gotten correspondingly ugly, I have not read where anyone has come up with a fault-tolerant design to preserve the CPU if the TEC fails. My understanding is if that happens, then the TEC acts as an insulator which causes the CPU to undergo heath death in short order. I know that software such as Motherboard Monitor can shut things down if it senses a dangerous temp but is that currently the "state of the art" solution?