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Originally posted by Since87
I've seen the specs on the Swiftech TEC/Heatsink. It appears to me that they are claiming that it can get a 100 Watt CPU to ambient with 80 CFM airflow. I am very skeptical. I've got a spreadsheet for calculating TEC cooling under various conditions, and that kind of performance is at the extreme end of what I can believe that heatsink is capable of. (Depends on the C/W of the heatsink when cooling a 50mm X 50mm pelt.)
As far as my pelt controller is concerned, I wish I'd been looking into this cooling stuff a couple years ago, because I probably could have sold enough of these things to make some money, but the window of opportunity is closing fast now. Besides I'm a design engineer. I like designing things. I don't want to deal with all the issues of running a business.
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What I havn't figured out about that Swiftech is how that pelt is powered? Surely it isn't of the computer power supply? That would seem not possible unless the power supply was 600watt and 20+amps? 226 watt pelt should take some serious power to operate. I havn't seen the power usages of that pelt yet. My buddy is a design Engineer also. He is coming up with some interesting stuff not related to computer cooling. His real job requires him to design heating and cooling systems. I wish I knew half of what he knows. Worst part is we graduated out of the same high school and class in 1995! I am still making more han he is though, although I am sure not for long!
